Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius), ca. 1620–40, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft, grayish black chalk, Sheet: 14 9/16 x 20 3/16 in. (37 x 51.2 cm), Drawings, Jean François Niceron (French, Paris 1613–1646 Aix) (or Artist in his Circle), After Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem), At plain sight, this large, complex design of fan-shaped form, with a semicircular edge at center, is teasingly indecipherable. Recently discovered, it is in fact a fascinating and extremely rare representation of a virtuosic exercise in catoptric anamorphosis
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Soldier, Horseback, Catoptric Anamorphosis, Hendrick Goltzius, ca, 1620–40, Pen, brown ink, brush, wash, traces, leadpoint, soft, grayish black chalk, Sheet, 14 9/16 x 20 3/16, 37 51.2 cm, Drawings, Jean François Niceron, French, Paris, 1613–1646, Aix, or Artist in his Circle, After Hendrick, Netherlandish, Mühlbracht, 1558–1617, Haarlem, plain, sight, large, complex design, fan-shaped form, semicircular edge, center, teasingly indecipherable, Recently discovered, fact, fascinating, extremely rare, representation, virtuosic exercise, catoptric anamorphosis
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