# Fortune Distributing her Gifts

**Jan Harmensz. Muller** (Dutch, 1571–1628)  
1590  
Engraving on two joined sheets of ivory laid paper  
Plate: 50.8 × 91.3 cm (20 × 36 in.); sheet: 52.4 × 92.6 cm (20 11/16 × 36 1/2 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.1264. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/268825).

## About this work

Jan Harmensz. Muller made this in 1590, aged 19. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of engraving on two joined sheets of ivory laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Engraving.** Lines cut directly into a metal plate with a steel burin, which makes them swell and taper. It took years to master, and for centuries it was how paintings travelled as pictures.
- **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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Netherlands
- The artist was 19
- Real size: about 20 × 36 in (50 × 91 cm). The 24 × 36 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Movement: [Dutch Golden Age](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/dutch-golden-age)
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5; 30 × 40 in $5

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