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Portrait of Jan Cornelis Vermeyen

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1500-ca. 1559 (Life dates)

(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

Title

Portrait of Jan Cornelis Vermeyen

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 12.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.16

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 Bruxellis 1559. aetat. 59. ad D. Gaugerici conditus. //13."; lower right corner within image, black ink: "IH.W."; lower centre, black ink: "15 IOANNI MAIO, PICTORI. // Quos homines, quae non Maius loca pinxit et urbes, Visendum late quicquid et Orbis habet; // Dum terra sequiturque mari te, Carole Caesar, // Pingeret vt destrae fortia facta tuae; // Quae mox Attalicis fulgerent aurea textis, // Materiem artifici sed superante manu? // Nec minus ille sua spectacula praebuit arte, // Celso conspicuus vertice grata tibi; // Iussus prlixae detecta volumina barbae // Ostentare suos pendula ad vsque pedes. // Th. Galle excud.".

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