Abigail
Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498-1574)
c. 1560
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
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.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, incised with stylus for transfer
- Original size
- 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Museum record · 6 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- John McGowan (died 1803), Edinburgh; possibly sold, Jan. 26–Feb. 4, 1804.
- Henry Reveley (1737–1798), North Wales, England; possibly sold, Christie’s, London May 11–12, 1852.
- Hamilton, London.
- Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798–1886), London; sold, Christie's, London, July 12–14, 1887, lot 999.
- Private collector; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, Nov. 16–17, 1959, lot 110.
- Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985; also the St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Old Master Drawings from Area Collections, 1997 and 27.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, 188-89, 190-91, 198, 301, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
