Gerit Jansz. van Schooten

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Gerit Jansz. van Schooten, 1579. Engraving on paper.

Engraving on paper · Plate: 5.1 × 3.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Gerit Jansz. van Schooten
Artist: Hendrick Goltzius Dutch, 1558–1617
Date: 1579
Medium: Engraving on paper
Dimensions: Plate: 5.1 × 3.8 cm (2 1/16 × 1 1/2 in.); sheet: 5.8 × 4.8 cm (2 5/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1558–1617

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.