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Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch draughtsman and printmaker active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Working primarily in pen and ink, he produced detailed studies of ornament, natural forms, and allegorical subjects that circulated widely across Northern Europe as models for artisans and designers. His drawings were foundational to the dissemination of Renaissance and early Baroque decorative vocabularies in the Dutch Republic and beyond.
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Man visiting a prostitute
1850 · paper
Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate
1650 · paper
Portrait of Jacob Mom, civil servant in Maas and Waal
1637 · paper
Portrait of Hendrick Danielsz Slatius, Netherlands remonstrant preacher
1637 · paper
Portrait of Reinier van Oldenbarnevelt
1637 · paper
Destruction of the Tower of Babel: at right men and women flee from the burning tower, at left men and women raise their hands toward two flying angels, from "Liber Genesis"
1612 · Engraving