The Sleepless Night of the Litigant, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1576
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.1 × 22.7 cm (7 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); sheet: 27 × 33.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268412
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...