Judgement of Solomon
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
15.7 × 19.7 cm (6 3/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109143
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck · 1596–1675
Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck was baptised on 9 May 1596 in ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Habsburg Netherlands, the son of the glass painter Jan Roelofsz. van Diepenbeeck, under whom he studied and trained in the family craft. After his father’s death in 1620 he left for Antwerp, registering in 1622–23 as a glass painter with the Guild of Saint Luke. Although the early biographer Arnold Houbraken claim...