Diana and Actaeon
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Franz Cleyn
(Rostock, Germany, 1582–London, England, 1658)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Datecirca 1600
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and gray and pink washes over traces of black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 7 3/8 × 6 5/16 in. (18.7 × 16.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1050
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1050
On View
Not on viewCleyn was active in various media and especially projects for decoration in the area of his native north Germany, in Denmark for an extended period, and in England continuously from 1625. With a dedicatory inscription by the artist, this drawing was a finished work, probably for a kind of cultural souvenir album that was popular at the time in Central Europe. Precious in its rendering, dependent upon an engraving by Jacob de Gheyn II after Dirck Barendsz., it suggests Cleyn’s early training with his father as a goldsmith and continuing interest in printmaking.
Exhibitions
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
1765
Camillo Boccaccino
circa 1527-1530
