Gerard van Schoonhoven
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.9 × 13.4 cm (6 11/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 20.2 × 13.8 cm (8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
108961
About the Artist
Willem Jacobsz. Delff · 1580–1638
Willem Jacobsz. Delff (c. 1580–1638) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter whose portrait engravings provide an invaluable visual record of early 17th-century Dutch society. Born around October 1580 in Delft, Willem came from an artistic family and trained under his father, Jacob Willemsz. Delff the Elder, himself a painter. Willem's marriage to Geertruid van Mierevelt, daughter of the renow...