Joseph Heintz the Elder
Joseph Heintz the Elder belongs to the late Renaissance current in which Mannerist figure style and disciplined drawing practice meet, and his surviving sheets are valued for their assured handling of pen and wash. The single work held here, Figures Adoring a Statue of the "Magna Mater", is drawn in pen and brown ink with brush and gray-brown wash, heightened with white, a combination that lets forms emerge through both line and tonal modelling. Dating from 1585, it represents the collection's only example of this draftsman, whose output in the archive is limited to impressions up to that year.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
