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Portrait of Lucas Gassel

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1500-1570 (Life dates)

(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

(author)
1532-1599

Title

Portrait of Lucas Gassel

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22 cm
Width: 12.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.22

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: ".IHW. Vixit et obijt Bruxellis circa an. 1560. // 21."; lower centre, black ink: "LVCAE GASSELIO HELMONTANO // PICTORI. // Salue omnes, Luca, ante alios cariSime quondam, // Nec leuius proprio culte parente mihi. // Quippe mihi primus graphices datus auctor amandae, // Dum pingis docta rura casasque manu. // Par arti probitasque tuae, candorique, bonorum // Et quicquid mentes ducere amore potest. // Ergo fama tuae virtutis, et artis in aeuum // Vivat vtroque mihi nomine amate sensex. Th. Galle excud. Dom Lampsonius amico posuit.". Mount, Recto: lower centre, black ink: "T. GALLE".

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