Satyrs and Nymphs, ca. 1599, Pen and black ink

Satyrs and Nymphs, ca. 1599, Pen and black ink, brush and black washes, red chalk, heightened with white bodycolor, black chalk underdrawing, Sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (23.5 x 32 cm), Drawings, Joseph Heintz the Elder (Swiss, Basel 1564-1609 Prague), This drawing is a rare and outstanding example of Joseph Heintz the Elder's mature and most elaborate drawing style. Related to one of Heintz's most important paintings, made in 1599, probably for Emperor Rudolf II (Alte Pinakothek, Munich), the sheet is typical of the work of artists active at Rudolf's Prague court, who favored complex compositions with many figures in distorted positions and mythological subjects, often of a slightly lascivious nature

1599 Heintz Lascivious Nymph Nymphs Satyr Satyrs Subjects

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