Hendrik Count van de Bergh
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 41.9 × 29.3 cm (16 1/2 × 11 9/16 in.); Plate: 42.2 × 29.9 cm (16 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 32.3 cm (17 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
89506
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 17th-century Dutch portrait with *Hendrik Count van de Bergh an engraving by Willem Jacobsz. Delff from 1634. Delff, a skilled engraver from Delft during the Dutch Golden Age, masterfully captured the likeness of Hendrik van den Bergh, a nobleman and military leader aligned with the Habsburg forces in the Eighty Years' War. This print, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, exemplifies the era's fascination with detailed, reproducible portraits that immortalized the elite. Created as an engraving in black ink on cream laid pap...
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...