The Sense of Hearing; verso: light sketch of a woman's head and an arm

Hendrick Goltzius

late 16th–early 17th century

The Sense of Hearing; verso: light sketch of a woman's head and an arm by Hendrick Goltzius

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

WomenDeer

About the Artist

Hendrick Goltzius · 15581617

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...

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