Sibylla Tiburtina
1625
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
1625
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Sibylla Tiburtina is a 1625 ink by Paul Maupin, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white woodcut of a seated woman in old-fashioned clothes. She holds a small bowl in one hand and a scroll in the other, wearing a necklace and a headpiece. The background looks like a simple curtain or draped fabric, and there’s a pillar on the left side. The woman’s name is written above her head, but the text is in Latin. The style looks like it’s from the early 1600s. If you like this kind of detailed woodcut, check out technique: woodcut.
