
Hendrick GoltziusPays-Bas, 1558–1617Peut-on la contempler ?
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Le propriétaire est connu. Si elle est exposée aujourd’hui, le musée ne le dit pas, et l’on ne nous a pas appris à deviner.
c. 1600
Abandoning engraving for painting
Around 1600, partial paralysis of his right hand (maimed in childhood in a fall onto burning coals) forced Goltzius to give up engraving and turn to painting; he handed over his print publishing to his stepson Jacob Matham. About fifty surviving paintings are attributed to him.
1603–1605
Pupil: Jan van den Bergh
1616
Declining health
By 1616 the artist's health had deteriorated; on 1 January of the following year he died in Haarlem at the age of 58.
1 janvier 1617
Died