Orpa verlaat Naomi en Ruth

This engraving shows three women at a crossroads in a landscape, dressed in heavy, classically inspired garments with bundles and walking sticks. On the left, Naomi and Ruth stand together, while Orpah is shown in profile on the right, looking back as she walks away. The work features the fine, rhythmic line work and muscular figure style typical of the artist's early period.

As a work by Hendrick Goltzius, this print demonstrates the technical mastery of the Haarlem Mannerists, whose sophisticated visual language and 'Schwellende Linie' (swelling line) technique became the standard for high-level intellectual and philosophical prints in the late 16th century.