Portret van een vrouw met een sluier

The woman is depicted in a right-facing profile, wearing an elaborate head-dress with a long veil that falls down her back. Her hands are folded against her chest in a gesture of contemplation or piety, and she wears a simple beaded necklace. The print is characterized by a loose, experimental style of hatching, particularly in the background.

Hendrick Goltzius was a pivotal figure in the Haarlem Mannerist circle and worked within the intellectual milieu of the court of Rudolf II, where art was often seen as a reflection of divine order. This work represents the technical virtuosity and humanistic interests of an artist whose wider body of work frequently engaged with mythological and Hermetic themes.