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Portrait of George Goethals

Maker

Christoffel Pierson (artist)
1631-1714

(engraver)
ca.1614-1668 (Life dates)

Title

Portrait of George Goethals

Date of Production

1667

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 34.4 cm
Width: 22 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1921

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 margin : IN EFFIGIEM VENERANDI DOCTISSIMI PIISSIMIQ. VIRI DOMN. GEORGII / GOEDHALSII GANDAV. FLANDRI. VERBI DIVINI ANTHEHAC IN BLARICUM / ET LAREN [colon] IAM VERO IN ECCLESIA HORNANA MINISTRI FIDELISSIMI / IPSOQUE AETATIS LXXXIII ET MINISTERII SACRI LVIII ANNO. / Umbra datur Pictrice manu quid plura requiris / Plusne potest umbrae quam levis umbra dari! / Quod solidum est proprio pingit Goedhalsius ore. / Sic referunt totum lingua manusq virum. / Des Schilders hant u hier een schyn of schaauw kan geven, / Maer soo ghy meerder als no schaaduw - toonsel tracht, / 'Tselftstandigh wessen maelt ons Godehals met syn leeven, / Neemt op dien heelen man, syn stem, en Leering acht. / Chr. Pierson Pinx. R. a Persyn Sculp. 1667. //

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