Portrait of Frans Floris
Maker
(artist)
1519-1570
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(author)
1532-1599
1519-1570
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(author)
1532-1599
Title
Portrait of Frans Floris
Date of Production
1572
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 12.8 cm
Width: 12.8 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2952.24
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: "Decessit Antuerpiae 1570. apud Franciscanos in coemiterio sepultus. // 22."; lower left corner within image, black ink: ".I.H.W."; lower centre, black ink: "FRANCISCO FLORO, ANTVERPIANO // PICTORI. // Si pictor quantum natura, Flore, valebas, // Tantum adiunxiSes artis et ipse tibi; // Dum tibi multa libet potius, quam pingere multum, // Nec mora te limce iusta, laborque iuuat; // Cedite, clamarem, pictores, omnibus oris // Quos vel aui, nostri vel genuere patres. // Th. Galle excud. Dom. Lampsonius.". Mount, Recto: lower centre, black ink: "F. Floris"; lower right corner, black ink: "WITT // LIBRARY 1975".
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