The Circumcision, plate four from The Birth and Early Life of Christ

Prints and Drawings

1594

Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)
text written by Cornelius Schonaeus

This celebrated print belongs to the Life of the Virgin series. Goltzius’s composition and method of using burin is deceptively close to that of Albrecht Dürer. Although Goltzius succeeded in capturing Dürer’s style, he also imposed his own ideas and settings. The artist set the scene in an exact rendering of a chapel of St. Bravo’s Church in Haarlem. The artist also portrayed himself standing in the arched doorway in the background, gazing out at the viewer. This is the earliest extant portrait of the artist.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Title: The Circumcision, plate four from The Birth and Early Life of Christ
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.: 1594
Medium: Engraving on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 464 × mm 353 mm (image); 480 × 354 mm (plate/sheet)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2199
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