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Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617, Dutch, Quis evadet?, 1594. Engraving, 21 x 15.2 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Northern Mannerism.
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This is among the last and most spectacular examples of Goltzius's Federkunststücke, or drawings imitating engravings; the artist's crippled hand and deteriorating eyesight challenged him in the graphic realm and prevented him from engraving after 1600. The robust young man holding a skull illustrates a vanitas theme in the form of a fantasy portrait. The Latin inscription, which translates "Who escapes? No man," and the hourglass in the upper right are reminders of the transience of…
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Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629) Pen and three shades of brown ink with black chalk
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