About this artwork
Jacques de Gheyn trained as a glass painter, miniaturist, and ultimately as an engraver under Hendrick Goltzius. It was only around 1600 that he turned from printmaking to painting. Carolus Clusius, pictured here, was a French botanist who, in his later years, came to Leiden where his cultivation of tulips marked the beginning of the Dutch tulip-bulb industry.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jacob de Gheyn, II
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Title
- Carolus Clusius
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Artist's working dates 1596–1606
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Medium
- Engraving, with stippling, in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 21.3 × 17.6 cm (8 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Plate: 21.9 × 18.3 cm (8 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.3 × 18.6 cm (8 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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Reference Number
- 1920.2184
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/108978/manifest.json
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