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Portrait of Francois Wouters

Maker

(artist)
1612-1659

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

(publisher)
1612-1670

Title

Portrait of Francois Wouters

Date of Production

1659

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.1 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2951.72

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: lower centre, black ink: "FRANCOIS WOUTERS 35.// est ne a Lyere lan 1614. faict extremement bien les petites figures principalement nues, et // aussi des paisages, il a este disciple de PPaul Rubens, et par son addres est faict peinctre de l'// Empereur d'A;;emaigne Ferdinand le 2me s'estant alle avec son Ambassadeur en Angleterre, ou // estant arrive rceut la nouvelle que sa Maj.te Imperi.le estoit mort lan 1637. en apres fut peinctre // et homme de Chambre du Prince de Galles, ayant demeure quelque temps a Londres s'est retourne a // Anvers s y faisant valoir par son art. Fr. Wouters pinxit. Pet. de Iode Sculp. Io. Meyssens exc.".

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