Hendrick Goltzius

Plate 2 from: The Life of the Virgin. Very good, crisp impression of the third state, with the number at lower left. The large-format engravings in this series are known as Goltzius's "master engravings". In them, he takes up the style and formal language of important predecessors such as Dürer, Van Leyden, Parmigianino and Zuccaro, without copying them, and develops his own compositions. This sheet is particularly oriented towards Parmigianino's style. With a fine margin around the platemark. – Lightly foxed, with a smoothed centrefold and remnants of a former mounting on the verso. A small paper loss in the lower right margin; otherwise in good condition.