Joost van den Vondel
Jan Lievens
1644/50
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 32.3 × 23.3 cm (12 3/4 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 32.8 × 24.3 cm (12 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40790
About the Artist
Jan Lievens · 1607–1674
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...