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| Charles Le Brun Hours of the Day - Aurora (Dawn) - Satyr, Bacchante, and Child 1640 etching British Museum |
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| Charles Le Brun Hours of the Day - Meridies (Mid-day) - Satyr, Bacchante, and Child 1640 etching British Museum |
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| Charles Le Brun Hours of the Day - Vesper (Evening) - Satyr holding child, Bacchante in background 1640 etching British Museum |
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| Charles Le Brun Hours of the Day - Nox (Night) - Satyr, Child, and Bacchante sleeping 1640 etching British Museum |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries Death of Cleopatra ca. 1654-66 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries Prudentia ca. 1654-66 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller after Cornelis van Haarlem Two Wrestlers before 1628 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Frederick Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert Hunters before 1669 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Frederick Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert Landscape before 1669 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Frederick Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert Landscape before 1669 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Frederick Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert Sea-coast before 1669 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| François Chauveau Head of old Satyr ca. 1630-76 etching British Museum |
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| Hendrick Goudt after Adam Elsheimer Salome receiving the head of St John the Baptist before 1648 engraving Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
"Hendrik Goudt (1583-1648) was one of the most influential printmakers in 17th-century Holland. His seven engravings after German painter Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610), with their dramatic chiaroscuro effects and dark tonalities, led the way for dark prints by such other artists as Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and Jan van de Velde II (ca. 1593-1641). . . . He was the son of Arend Goudt, a member of the lesser nobility in The Hague. Goudt went to Rome in 1604 and by 1607 is recorded as living in Elsheimer's house; by 1609 he was living in a house nearby. According to the account written by Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688), Goudt was Elsheimer's pupil; it is clear that Goudt's drawing style was based on Elsheimer's. Sandrart also recorded that Goudt purchased many of Elsheimer's paintings. Elsheimer suffered financial difficulties and probably was put in debtor's prison, where he may have contracted his fatal illness. Goudt's role in this is unclear, but apparently they reconciled after Elsheimer's release and before his death in 1610. While Italian records list Goudt as a painter, two of his engravings after Elsheimer were made in Rome, dated 1608 and 1610. The remaining five engravings were made in 1612 and 1613, after Goudt returned to Holland to live in Utrecht. He brought with him a number of Elsheimer's paintings. He was accepted into the artist's Guild of St. Luke as an engraver and a nobleman. He was apparently a man of means, and acquired valuable real estate in 1612. . . . After about 1620 he suffered from mental illness and was declared incompetent in 1625. Sandrart visited Goudt in Utrecht in 1625 and 1626 and found him feeble-minded; other contemporary documents record the same. He died in 1648 in Utrecht."
– from curator's notes at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Goudt's relationship to the the far more famous Elsheimer sounds like a Henry James novel – wealthy young dilettante befriends improvident genius, whom he then exploits and destroys, but is later overtaken in his own turn by guilt (or nemesis) and driven mad.
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| Pieter Claesz Soutman after Adam Elsheimer Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1657 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Grégoire Huret Mars and Minerva with Time asleep and Fame flying aloft ca. 1642-44 engraved title-page British Museum |
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| Alexander Voet after Jacob Jordaens Old man with cat ca. 1662-74 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |