# Portrait of the Sculptor Pierre Francheville [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOLTZIUS, Hendrick]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Black and red chalk, brush in grey and brown, 415 x 308 mm ## Commentary Portrait of the Sculptor Pierre Francheville c. 1591 Black and red chalk, brush in grey and brown, 415 x 308 mm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Goltzius arrived in Rome in 1591 due to health reasons. However, he produced there a number of large portraits executed in chalks of various colours. Most of these portraits are of artists he met on his travels, both Dutch and Italian. The portrait shown in the picture was identified in the 20th century as that of Pierre Francheville \(his Italianized name is Pietro Francavilla\) on the basis of the similarities to a painted portrait of the sculptor, who lived in Florence and was the leading assistant of Giambologna. ## Related artworks - [Apollo]() - [Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres]() - [Calphurnius]() - [Circumcision in the Church of St Bavo at Haarlem]() - [Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert]() - [Hercules and Cacus]() - [Icarus]() - [Jupiter and Antiope]() - [Lot and his Daughters]() - [Mercury]() - [Minerva]() - [Phaeton]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()