Portret van een man met een hoed

The man is shown in a sharp profile view, emphasizing the rugged textures of his skin and facial features. He is dressed in early sixteenth-century attire, featuring a wide-brimmed cap and a heavy fur-collared garment. The background consists of a dense, rhythmic grid of cross-hatching and dots, demonstrating the artist's unique technical approach to engraving.

Hendrick Goltzius was the central figure of the Haarlem Mannerists and a key artist for the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, a major center for Renaissance occultism and natural philosophy. This print reflects the Mannerist preoccupation with technical virtuosity and the imitation of earlier masters like Albrecht Dürer, seen as a form of artistic 'alchemy' where the engraver transforms base materials into complex visual ideas.