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Vries, Frederik de (died 1613) son of the painter Dirck de Vries, pupil of Goltzius, with Goltzius's dog

A work made of engraving in black on ivory laid paper.

Vries, Frederik de (died 1613) son of the painter Dirck de Vries, pupil of Goltzius, with Goltzius's dog

Hendrick Goltzius · 1597

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Palette

Oyster
41% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1

Putty
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Smoke
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Warm grey
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

Taupe
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

Iron
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-1617
Date: 1597
Type: Print
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Size: Image: 33.9 × 26 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 35.8 × 26.4 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 38.4 × 28.6 cm (15 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: 16th century
Themes: Dogs
Main colour: Grey · lightness 65, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Stanley Field Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules