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Half length portrait of the artist Nicolaus Knupfer, to left

Maker

Nikolaus Knüpfer (artist)
1603-1655

(engraver)
1606-ca. 1674 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1612-1670

Title

Half length portrait of the artist Nicolaus Knupfer, to left

Date of Production

17th century

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.3 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1723

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





Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, black ink: "NICOLAS KNUPFER. // Peintre artificieux en figures. Il fit son apprenisaige a Lipsic, chez Emmanuel .. Nysen, l'an 1603. et du depuis a Magdembourg. Il vint l'an 1630. tenir sa residence en // Utrecht, chez Abraham Blommart, ou il at mis au iour quantite de pieces admirables tant // pour le Roy de Dannemarc, comme pour aultres grands Princes et personnes curieuses. // Nicolas Knupfer pinxit. // P. de Iode Sculpsit. // Ioannes Meyssens excudit.".

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