Pieter Van Sompel
Pieter Van Sompel belongs to the circle of seventeenth-century Netherlandish printmakers whose engravings carried portraits and mythological scenes into circulation. His burin work in this archive appears in early and late states recorded by Hollstein, with impressions dated by the Met to the years around 1615 to 1620. The collection holds just two of his engravings, among them a portrait of Theophrastus Paracelsus and the myth of Ixion deceived by Hera. Both sheets represent the period's engraving tradition, and the dating reflects impressions up to 1620.
2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
