Portrait of Jan Joest (Juan de Hollanda)
Maker
Jan Joest (artist)
1455/1460-1519 (Life dates)
(engraver)
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(author)
1532-1599
1455/1460-1519 (Life dates)
(engraver)
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(author)
1532-1599
Title
Portrait of Jan Joest (Juan de Hollanda)
Date of Production
1572
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2952.10
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: upper centre edge within image, black ink: "Objit Antuerpiae in patria circa an. 1540. // 11."; lower centre, black ink: "11 IOANNI HOLLANDO, PICTORI. // Propria Belgarum laus est bene pingere rura; // Ausoniorum, homines pingere, siue deos. // Nec mirum: in capite Ausonius; sed Belga cerebrum // Non temere in gnaua fertur habere manu. // Maluit ergo manus jani bene pingere rura, // Quam caput, aut homines, aut male scire deos. // Th. Galle. excud. Dom Lampsonius".
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