Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, and sculptor (1645-1708)

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A Turkish army taking a town fortification mutilating, flaying and disembowelling their enemies behind the lines. Etching.

James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.

The body of an old man is laid out naked in state outside the wooden fortifications of a town and mocked and insulted by a mob lighting a bonfire. Etching [by Romeyn de Hooghe].

Above, a seated woman representing Latium (Lazio) or Rome; below, a triton, a river god and a winged woman, representing the Tiber. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1671.

Mongolian soldiers crucifying and mutilating civilians in a coastal town. Etching [by Romeyn de Hooghe].

King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.

Soldiers dismembering, torturing and killing civilians outside town fortifications, probably during a siege. Etching by R. de Hooghe [?].

The murder of the De Witt brothers in the Hague on 20 August 1672. Etching by R. de Hooghe.

Ysbrandt van Diemerbroeck. Line engraving after R. de Hooghe.

A mass execution outside the town fortifications while a Christian procession takes place within the town walls. Etching [by Romeyn de Hooghe].

Anatomy and medicine performed outside a temple of Apollo and Aesculapius, representing themes in the works of Thomas Willis. Etching attributed to R. de Hooghe, 1682.

Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent / [Levinus Vincent].

La manierè de se bien préparer à la mort par des considérations sur la cene, la passion, et la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de trés-belles estampes emblematiques / expliquées par Mr. de Chertablon.

The Catholic powers gather around the infant James Francis Edward Stuart. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688, with letterpress.

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe, 169-.

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Romeyn de Hooghe

Images from the collections

Images by Romeyn de Hooghe

Works from the collections

Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent / [Levinus Vincent].

La manierè de se bien préparer à la mort par des considérations sur la cene, la passion, et la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de trés-belles estampes emblematiques / expliquées par Mr. de Chertablon.

The Catholic powers gather around the infant James Francis Edward Stuart. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688, with letterpress.

The murder of the De Witt brothers in the Hague on 20 August 1672. Etching by R. de Hooghe.

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe, 169-.

Romeyn de Hooghe

Images from the collections

Images by Romeyn de Hooghe

Works from the collections

Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent / [Levinus Vincent].

La manierè de se bien préparer à la mort par des considérations sur la cene, la passion, et la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de trés-belles estampes emblematiques / expliquées par Mr. de Chertablon.

The Catholic powers gather around the infant James Francis Edward Stuart. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688, with letterpress.

The murder of the De Witt brothers in the Hague on 20 August 1672. Etching by R. de Hooghe.

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe, 169-.

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