The Sense of Hearing; verso: light sketch of a woman's head and an arm
late 16th–early 17th century
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, stumped; traces of brown and yellow chalks
Dimensions
12 3/8 x 8 1/16 in. (31.4 x 20.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Harvey Salzman Gifts, 1994
Accession Number
1994.87
Tags
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...