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Petro Coecke

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

(publisher)
1571-1633

(engraver)
1539-1618

Browne (publisher)

Title

Petro Coecke

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 11.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1534

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


self-portrait (?)




Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Print Room Display - The Intelligent Hand, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 30/09/2014-31/12/2014

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper edge within image, black ink: "Obijt pictor et architectus Antuerpiae circa an. 1550. // 16."; lower centre, black ink: "16 PETRO COECKE, ALOSTANO, PICTORI. // Pictor eras, nec eras tantum, Petre, pictor, Alostum // Qui facis hac Orbi notius arte tuum : // Multa sed accessit multo ars tibi parta labore, // Cuius opus pulchras aedificare domos. // Serlius hanc Italos: tu, Serli deinde bilinguis // Interpres, Belgas, Francigenasque doces."; lower left corner, black ink: "Th. Galle excud."; lower central edge, black ink: "Sebastianus Serlius Scripsit Italice de Architectura.". Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: "See mount for information on this."; lower left edge, graphite: "G.1990.WL.1534"; lower right edge, graphite: "Theodoor Galle Publish // .... of the Netherlandish Portraits".

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