Portrait of Jan Cornelis Vermeyen
Maker
(artist)
ca. 1500-ca. 1559 (Life dates)
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
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
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
Keywords
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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