# Abigail

- By: Maerten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498-1574)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Simeon B. Williams Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12868)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d2a8cedcbe84ad03371e3e01caf69268.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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