Saint Dominic Reading
Bartholomaeus Spranger
c. 1573
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
30.6 × 18.6 cm (12 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
ink
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55565
About the Artist
Bartholomaeus Spranger
Bartholomaeus Spranger was born on 21 March 1546 in Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands, as the third son of trader Ioachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsinne. He began his artistic training in Antwerp, apprenticing for 18 months under landscape painter Jan Mandijn, briefly with Frans Mostaert after Mandijn's death, and then spending two years studying followed by two more in the workshop of Cornelis van D...