Abigail
Maerten van Heemskerck
1555–1565
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, incised with stylus for transfer
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)inkpen and ink drawingsprints and drawingcolored inkbrown inkcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Maarten van Heemskerck, a prolific draftsman and etcher and the leading proponent of the Mannerist School in Haarlem, spent a decisive period in Rome from 1532 to 1536. This drawing shows the influence of Michelangelo's heroic forms. Pricked for transfer to a metal plate, it is one of six designs he made for an engraved series of Good Women of the Old Testament.
