Abigail (c. 1560): Artwork and History
Abigail at the Art Institute of Chicago: date, artist attribution, materials and the museum's explanation of the work.
Abigail (c. 1560) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Maarten van Heemskerck Netherlandish, 1498-1574.
The work and its context
The Art Institute of Chicago describes the 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.
Object facts
- Title: Abigail
- Date: c. 1560
- Artist attribution: Maarten van Heemskerck Netherlandish, 1498-1574
- Place of origin: Netherlands
- 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.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Department: Prints and Drawings
- Reference number: 1961.33
Collection credit
Simeon B. Williams Fund
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