Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius), Jean François Niceron, ca. 1620–40

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Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius), ca. 1620–40, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft, grayish black chalk, Sheet: 14 9/16 x 20 3/16 in. (37 x cm), Drawings, Jean François Niceron (French, Paris 1613–1646 Aix) (or Artist in his Circle), After Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem), At plain sight, this large, complex design of fan-shaped form, with a semicircular edge at center, is teasingly indecipherable. Recently discovered, it is in fact a fascinating and extremely rare representation of a virtuosic exercise in catoptric anamorphosis

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