Gillis van Breen

Prints and Drawings

1588/92

Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-1617

Gillis van Breen (c. 1560-after 1602) seems to have been a member of Hendrik Goltzius’s workshop for at least the years 1588-92, when Goltzius made three portrait drawings of him. Van Breen is described in an inscription on an impression of this print at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, as Goltzius’s “art printer,” and some scholars speculate that he may have made this print himself after one of Goltzius’s drawings of him.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Title: Gillis van Breen
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.: 1588–1592
Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in black, ochre, and brown, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 20.8 × 14.4 cm (8 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 21.1 × 14.5 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Alfred E. Hamill
Reference Number: 1951.53
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Hollstein, The New 305 IIb/IIb

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