Mulier Coloniensis
Medium
etching
Dimensions
62; 94
About this artwork
Vrouw uit Keulen, een huik over het hoofd, die ze aan twee slippen met beide handen vasthoudt. Onder de mantel een brede plooikraag, een lijfje en rok.
Art Historical Context
### Mulier Coloniensis (Woman of Cologne) Created in 1643 by Wences Hollar, a masterful Bohemian etcher renowned for his meticulous depictions of 17th-century life, *Mulier Coloniensis* captures the poised elegance of a woman from (ancient Colonia Agrippina). At just 94mm high by 62mm wide, this intimate etching belongs to Hollar's celebrated series of costume studies, which documented regional fashions across Europe during a time of political upheaval, including the Thirty Years' War. Hollar, who fled Prague and later worked in Antwerp around this period, used these prints to preserve vanish...
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...