Portrait of Frederick de Vries

Object Name
Object Type
Category
Prints
Date
1597
Medium
etching and engraving on paper
Credit Line
Gift of Floyd S. Chalmers, 1992
Object Number
92/21
Location
Not currently on display but Available for viewing on Wednesdays from 1-4:30 in the Prints and Drawings Study Centre

Dimensions

Sheet: 36.1 × 26.7 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

Description

Portrait of Frederick de Vries, son of painter Dirck de Vries, pupil of Goltzius, with Goltzius's dog.

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Imperial privilege, date and monogram at LL: Cum Privil. Sa. Cae. M./ Anno 1597/ HG
Verso in graphite LL: IR and 4 illegible.
Dedication in cartouche LC: Theodorico Frisio Pictori egregio/ aput Venetos amicitaiae et filij absentis/ repraesentandi gratia D.D.

Two Latin distichs in margin: Quid tabula hae capiat, fors non capis : en tibi paueis / Mentom . simplieitas quorit amatqz fidom./ Fida canis, simploxqz puor, quos Goltzius apto/ Vivon Phidiaed fecit in ore manu./ P. Scriverius.
Markings
Red ink collectors stamp verso bottom center (crown with 'O' beheath?)

Catalogue Raisonné

H. 218.II; N.H. 256.I (Hendrick Goltzius); Hirschmann (1921) 218; Strauss (1977) 344; van Someren (1888) 5999; Bartsch III.59.1

Subjects

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