
Goltzius was the foremost draughtsman, printmaker, print publisher and painter working in Holland at the turn of the seventeenth century. Initially a Mannerist artist, by 1600 he revealed an interest in naturalism, and more or less gave up engraving. Nonetheless, he made 361 prints, 291 of his own design, This depicts the son of the still-life painter Dirck de Vries.