About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius
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Title
- A Nude Female Figure Fleeing to the Right with Arms Outstretched, with Sketch of a Bust of Secondary Figure (recto); A Sketch of a Nude, Kneeling Female Figure, Supported by Another Standing (verso)
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1595–1605
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Medium
- Black and red chalk, with stumping, with touches of white lead (partially discolored) (recto) and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper prepared with pale brown wash
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, upper left, in graphite: "Goltzius f"; upper right, in graphite: "380"; verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink, by a modern hand: "Heinr. Goltzius, Mühlbracht i. Julich geb. 1558/ starb zu Harlem 1617./ “Andromeda”? Tusche u. Rottstein/ etwas fleckig"; along lower edge, in pen and brown ink, in graphite, in same hand: "1864 aus"; in brown ink: "J. A. Börners Sammlung"; lower right, in graphite: "9718"
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Dimensions
- 19.4 × 15.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle Bent
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Reference Number
- 1997.302
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/147059/manifest.json