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Abigail
Maerten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498-1574)
c. 1560
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, incised with stylus for transfer
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Simeon B. Williams Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Maarten van Heemskerck, a prolific draftsman and etcher and the leading proponent of the Mannerist School in Haarlem, spent a decisive period in Rome from 1532 to 1536. This drawing shows the influence of Michelangelo's heroic forms. Pricked for transfer to a metal plate, it is one of six designs he made for an engraved series of Good Women of the Old Testament.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
