Portrait of Adam Elsheimer
Maker
(artist)
1612-1670
(engraver)
1607-1677
(publisher)
1612-1670
1612-1670
(engraver)
1607-1677
(publisher)
1612-1670
Title
Portrait of Adam Elsheimer
Date of Production
1648 - 1650
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 16 cm
Width: 11.4 cm
Width: 11.4 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2951.3
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
Adam Elsheimer
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, black ink: "9 ADAM ELSHEIMER // Natif de Francfort en l'an 1574 fitz d'un Tayleur, faisoit son apren // tisage a Francfort Chez Philippe Oudenbach; gran deseignateur, et tres bon // painctre neanmoins surpassoit son maistre de beaucoup, estoit d'un Hu // meur melancolique, se treuent ordinairement dans les Eglises, ou en quel // que Viele Ruine, exersent de la facon, son estude, on trouve peu de ses // oeuvres mais extremement labourees, avecque une grande force et d'un divin // entendement, Il a peau dessaingue, mais tenant du grand maistre, Touchant sa vie // at este, de peu de duree, mourut poure, laissent per le monde une Renomee, qui durera // a jamais W. Hollar fecii. I: Meysens pinxit et excudit.". Mount, Recto: lower centre, black ink: "J. MEYSSENS"; lower right corner, graphite: "948/41 (14)".
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