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Jan Harmensz. Muller

Portrait of Hendrik Goltzius, 1617 - 1620

Description

Maker

  • Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1571-1628, Dutch
  • After Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617, Dutch

Title

Portrait of Hendrik Goltzius

Year

1617 - 1620

Medium

Engraving on medium weight cream laid paper, trimmed within platemark

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 57.3 x 42.7 cm (22 9/16 x 16 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil, LR:P.I. Exvscv

Identification

State

2nd of 3

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1161

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Jan Harmensz. Muller was perhaps the most outrageous of Hendrick Goltzius’s followers, and his visually extravagant works promote the idea that engraved lines could exhibit sculptural or figural form in and of themselves. To commemorate his teacher in this portrait (created the year of Goltzius’s death) Muller organized the wide, swelling grooves with ample space between them to build a sculptural form matched by a sculptural niche. The niche area also displays a moiré pattern, an optical effect that creates a distracting visual interference when crossed lines are overlaid at slight angles. Goltzius himself avoided this effect.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Portrait of Hendrik Goltzius with the accession number of 13.1161. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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