Willem Pietersz Buytewech
Willem Pietersz Buytewech belongs to the circle of early seventeenth-century Dutch printmakers whose etchings range across religious and genre subjects, executed with a light, exploratory line. The two sheets held here are etchings in the second state of three as described by Hollstein, dated 1613 and including later impressions up to that year. Their subjects, Mary Magdalen in the wilderness and Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, place the prints within the devotional imagery of the period. Together they offer a compact view of Buytewech's work as an etcher during this early phase.
2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
