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Portrait of Quinten Metsys

Maker

(artist)
1466-1530

(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

Title

Portrait of Quinten Metsys

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 12.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.9

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 central edge within image, black ink: "Obijt Antuerpiae 1529. in Carthusia ad vrbis muros conditus. // 9. // .IHW."; lower centre, black ink: "9 QVINTINVS MESSIVS, ANTVER: // PIZNVS PICTOR. // Ante faber fueram Cyclopeus: ast vbi mecum // Ex aequo pictor caepit amare procus : // Seque graues tuditum tonitrus postferre silenti // Peniculo obiecit cauta puella mihi : // Pictorem me fecit amor. Tudes innuit illud // Exiguus, tabulis quae nota certa meis. // Sic, vbi Vulcanum nato Venus arma rogarat, // Pictorem e fabro, summe Poeta, facis. // Th. Galle excud.".

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