Bust of a Warrior

Prints and Drawings

1586/88

Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch 1558-1617

Netherlandish artists like Hendrick Goltzius studied Classical antiquity to understand the ideal representation of the human face and body. They also turned to Classical inspirations to develop their own imaginative repertoire, as reflected in this rendering of a warrior.

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Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Title: Bust of a Warrior
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1585–1589
Medium: Black chalk, with red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, ruled with pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, center right: "HG"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: illegible name over "(1588–1616)"; center, in graphite: "got"; right, in graphite: illegible word
Dimensions: 14 × 9.8 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.849
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 138, 142 (ill.), 299, cat. 43, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Robert Lebel, Paris; sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar. 25, 2009, lot 41a, to Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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