Study of Eleven Heads, Jacques de Gheyn II, late 16th–early 17th century

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Study of Eleven Heads, late 16th–early 17th century, Pen and three shades of brown ink with black chalk on laid paper; framing lines in brown ink and graphite, sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 3/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague), This drawing is from a group of studies intended as a repertoire of figures for practice and reference. It is one of the most significant and most intact of several such sheets composed by de Gheyn, who worked primarily as a printmaker and draftsman, and was trained by Hendrick Goltzius

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