Painter from the Southern Netherlands (1519-1584)

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An architectural loggia of Corinthian columns and pilasters with Adam and Eve. Engraving by P. Huys after L. van Noort, 1568.

The arterial system of the human body. Engraving, 1568.

A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561.

A man pointing to a woman with her hands clasped. Oil painting after Pieter Huys (?).

The venous and arterial system of the human body with internal organs and detail figures of the generative system. Engraving, 1568.

Two figures with their thoracic cavity exposed, one dissecting the other (figs I-II), together with illustrations mainly of the heart (figs III-XI) and two of the lungs (figs XII-XIII). Engraving, 1568.

Vivae imagines partium corporis humani aereis formis expressae.

An écorché, seen in right profile, walking towards the right. Engraving, 1568.

Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568.

The vascular and arterial system of the human brain (II), the pulmonary artery (III), the venal artery (IIII) and the portal system of veins (I). Engraving, 1568.

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Pieter Huys

Images from the collections

Images by Pieter Huys

Works from the collections

Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568.

The venous and arterial system of the human body with internal organs and detail figures of the generative system. Engraving, 1568.

The arterial system of the human body. Engraving, 1568.

A man pointing to a woman with her hands clasped. Oil painting after Pieter Huys (?).

The vascular and arterial system of the human brain (II), the pulmonary artery (III), the venal artery (IIII) and the portal system of veins (I). Engraving, 1568.

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Pieter Huys

Images from the collections

Images by Pieter Huys

Works from the collections

Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568.

The venous and arterial system of the human body with internal organs and detail figures of the generative system. Engraving, 1568.

The arterial system of the human body. Engraving, 1568.

A man pointing to a woman with her hands clasped. Oil painting after Pieter Huys (?).

The vascular and arterial system of the human brain (II), the pulmonary artery (III), the venal artery (IIII) and the portal system of veins (I). Engraving, 1568.

Frequent collaborators

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