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A work made of pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.

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Jan Harmensz. Muller

Dutch, 1571–1628

Apolloc. 1600-1620

Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Primary support: 36.5 × 23.4 cm (14 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 38.2 × 24.2 cm (15 1/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago · 1922.1754

Jan Harmensz. Muller painted this in about 1600-1620, aged about 24. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work

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Format

Archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm cotton paper, with a white border.

Size
Size
16 × 20 in · image 11¼ × 17½
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gsm
Price
$56

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About this work

A work made of pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.

Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jan Harmensz. Muller painted this in about 1600-1620, aged about 24. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

How it was made

Chalk
Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
Pen and ink
Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
Laid paper
Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

Jan Harmensz. Muller

Dutch, 1571–1628

Muller came from an Amsterdam family of engravers and publishers and became one of the most accomplished Dutch Mannerist engravers. Working in the swelling-line manner associated with Hendrick Goltzius, he engraved compositions after Bartholomeus Spranger, Cornelis van Haarlem and the sculptor Adriaen de Vries, as well as his own designs, rendering muscular figures in dramatic, twisting poses.

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Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number
1922.1754
Credit
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Type
Drawing and Watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
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