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Half-length portrait

Maker

(artist)
1629-1658

(engraver)
1629-1658

Title

Half-length portrait

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2778

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: within image, lower right corner, black ink: “C. Visser Sculp”; below the image, black ink: “Talis erat veterem excipens GASSEDUS Amicum, // Talis erat placido pectore vera sequens. / Cernitur hic rerum prudentia rara; fidesque, // Candor, cum cauta simplicitate patet. // Deficit ille unus (nam caelatura negavit) // Qui laudes temnens pinxerat ora pudor / Caetera divini ingenii miracula, Lector, // Facundi referet pagina docta Senis. // SAM. SORBERIUS M.P”; Mount: lower centre margin, stamped in balck ink: “C. VISSCHER” followed in graphite: “II”.

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