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Portrait of Ludwig VI of Hessen-Darmstadt

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1613-ca. 1666 (Life dates)

(engraver)
1625-1670

Title

Portrait of Ludwig VI of Hessen-Darmstadt

Date of Production

1662

Medium


Dimensions

Height: 30.7 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3241

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 left corner within image, black ink: "46"; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "Salomon Duarte pin. // Iohannes Schweizer sculp."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Hic tuus ex voto est LUDOVICUS, o HASSIA! PRINCEPS, // SIDEREAM MENTEM qui IOVE NATUS habet // Pacis amans, NUMENque colens, et lumine PHOEBUS; // MARTIS et in placido pectore robur alit. // Nempe DEUM SOBOLES, Virtutibg incluta, dotes // Non alias AEQVA promere MENTE potest. // Ioh. Tackig D.". Mount, Recto: lower centre edge, black print: "Salomon DUARTE"; lower centre edge, black ink: "951/71(7) // 213".

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