The Sense of Hearing (recto); light sketch of a woman's head and an arm (verso)

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Artist: Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem)
Date: late 16th–early 17th century
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, stumped; traces of brown and yellow chalks
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 8 1/16 in. (31.4 x 20.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Harvey Salzman Gifts, 1994
Accession no.: 1994.87

Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear
Hendrick Goltzius
1586 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000298
A Nude Female Figure Fleeing to the Right with Arms Outstretched, with Sketch of a Bust of Secondary Figure (recto); A Sketch of a Nude, Kneeling Female Figure, Supported by Another Standing (verso)
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1600 (recto); 1598/99 (verso) · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005704
Two Male Heads after the Antique, the Sons of Laocoön
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1605 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006149
Bust of a Warrior
Hendrick Goltzius
1586/88 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006186

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.