Pietà

Maker Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558 - 1617)

Collections

European Print Highlights

ClassificationsPRINTS

Date1596

Mediumengraving

Dimensions7 9/16 x 5 1/4 in. (19.2 x 13.3 cm.)

InscribedInscription by artist (in plate): lower center on slab: HG (monogram) Notations by others: in pencil l.l.: ? / 041671 (underlined) K... ? Collectors' marks: lower center verso: Collection Edward W. Bodman

MarkingsCollector’s mark “Collection Edward W. Bodman” in lower right of verso

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Edward W. and Julia B. Bodman Collection

Status

Not on view

Label TextGoltzius, the leading Dutch engraver of his day, was especially famed for his sophisticated technique. In this moving image of the Virgin mourning the loss of her son, the artist creates masterful tonal effects with thicker and thinner lines and fine cross-hatching, particularly in the modeling of Christ’s torso and the Virgin’s drapery on the ground.

Object number72.62.227