Two grotesque masks, by Cornelis Floris

An image of 16th Century; chalk; Cornelis Floris; drawing; Dutch Golden Age; faces; facial expressions; Fitz_PDP; Flemish; grotesque; grotesques; horned; horns; Mannerism; Mannerist; masks; Northern Mannerism; Northern Renaissance; Renaissance

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

16th Century; chalk; Cornelis Floris; drawing; Dutch Golden Age; faces; facial expressions; Fitz_PDP; Flemish; grotesque; grotesques; horned; horns; Mannerism; Mannerist; masks; Northern Mannerism; Northern Renaissance; Renaissance

Image data

Accession Number: 2979
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Kate Young
Image height: 694 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 145.02kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2026)
            "Two grotesque masks, by Cornelis Floris"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-217741 Accessed: 2026-01-12 12:06:12

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-217741
            |title=Two grotesque masks, by Cornelis Floris
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2026-01-12 12:06:12|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-217741

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/large_2979_1_201908_kly25_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Two grotesque masks"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Two grotesque masks, by Cornelis Floris</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>