Landscape with a Waterfall, from Four Small Landscapes
Hendrick Goltzius
1597/1600, printed 1605/20
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut in black, ochre, and green with additions of white gouache on blue ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet: 11.2 × 14.8 cm (4 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72396
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...