VERMEYEN, Jan Cornelisz.
(b. ca. 1500, Beverwijk, d. 1559, Bruxelles)

Female Head

c. 1545
Pen and brown ink, 219 x 163 mm
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

The drawing style of this vividly rendered portrait of an elderly woman was in part determined by the artist's experience as an etcher; however, the fixed structure of regular parallels and cross lines is rooted in engraving.