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Portrait of Jan Abel Wassenbergh

Maker

Jan Abel Wassenbergh (artist)
1689-1750

(engraver)
1706-1761

Title

Portrait of Jan Abel Wassenbergh

Date of Production

1751

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 10.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2862

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the image, on a plaque, black ink: “Hier ziet gy Wassenbergh geschildert naar het leven, / Geheel begraven in der kunstenaren hart; / Wiens meesterlyk penseel de grooste Meesters tart; / Apel zelf, zag hy op, zou hem de voorrang geven / Zwicht Italianisch, en Fransch, en Nederlantsch penseel / Gy schiet te kort voor dat van Grunoos puik juweel. / H.G. V.D.M. te Wilnis. //”; below the image, lower left corner, black ink: “J.A. Wassenbergh Pinx.//”; lower right corner, black ink: “P. Tanje Sculp. 1751. //”.

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