Carolus Clusius
Jacques de Gheyn (II)
1596–1606
- Medium
- Engraving, with stippling, in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.3 × 17.6 cm (8 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Plate: 21.9 × 18.3 cm (8 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.3 × 18.6 cm (8 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Jacques de Gheyn trained as a glass painter, miniaturist, and ultimately as an engraver under Hendrick Goltzius. It was only around 1600 that he turned from printmaking to painting. Carolus Clusius, pictured here, was a French botanist who, in his later years, came to Leiden where his cultivation of tulips marked the beginning of the Dutch tulip-bulb industry.
