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Portrait of Benedictus Aretius

Maker

Isayas Le Preux (publisher)
born 1586

Title

Portrait of Benedictus Aretius

Date of Production

1617

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 11.3 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.8145

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







Notes

Portrait of author cut from the frontispiece of S.S. theologiae problemata, hoc est, loci communes Christianae religionis, methodice explicati / per clariss. virum, Dn. Benedictum Aretium, quondam theologum Bernensem published by Isayas Le Preux in Geneva in 1617. There was a 1604 edition of this work which featured a different frontispiece with a different author portrait.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within oval cartouche, printed: BERNENSIS THEOLOGUS BENEDICTUS ARETIUS; lower margin, typed: SWISS SCHOOL.

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