Sophia Hedwichia, Countess of Nassau-Dietz
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.9 × 30.5 cm (14 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Plate: 42.5 × 31 cm (16 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45 × 33.4 cm (17 3/4 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
183065
About the Artist
Willem Jacobsz. Delff · 1580–1638
Willem Jacobsz. Delff (c. 1580–1638) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter whose portrait engravings provide an invaluable visual record of early 17th-century Dutch society. Born around October 1580 in Delft, Willem came from an artistic family and trained under his father, Jacob Willemsz. Delff the Elder, himself a painter. Willem's marriage to Geertruid van Mierevelt, daughter of the renow...