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Portrait of Matthiae Coco

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

(engraver)

(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

(author)
1532-1599

Title

Portrait of Matthiae Coco

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.13

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: upper centre edge within image, black ink: "Objit Antuerpiae circa an. 1560. //13."; lower centre, black ink: "13 MATTHIAE COCO, ANTVERPIANO, // PICTORI, HIERONYMI FRATRI. // Tu quoque, Matthia, sic pingere rura sciebas, // Vt tibi vix dederint tempora nostra parem. // Ergo, quod artifices inter Spectaris et ipse, // Quos immortali Belgica laude colit; // Non in te pietas tantum fraterna, sed arti // Efficit, et merito laus tribuenda tuae. // Th. Galle excud. Dom. Lampsonius.".

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