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Portrait of Henri met de Bles

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1510 - after 1550 (Life dates)

(engraver)

Formerly attributed to
(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

(author)
1532-1599

Title

Portrait of Henri met de Bles

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.14

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: "Bubonem pro nota tabulis suis appinxit, vixitqz circa an. 1550. //14. "; lower centre, black ink: "14 HENRICO BLESIO, BOVINATI, PICTORI. // Pictorem vrbs dederat Dionatum Eburonia, pictor // Quen proximis dixit poeta versibus. // Illum adeo artificem patriae situs ipse, magistro, // AptiSimus, vix edocente fecerat. // Hanc laudem unuidit vicinae exile Bouinum, // Et rura doc tum pingere Henricum dedit. // Sed quantum cedit Dionato exile Bouinum, // Ioachime, tantum cedit Henricus tibi. // Th. Galle excud. Dom. Lampsonius.".

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