From Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur / ILAB, Den Haag, Netherlands
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About this Item
Portrait of the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, as 60 years old man. Two allegorical figures on the sides, Minerva and Rhetoric, are holding a laurel wreath above the portrait. Within the wreath an emblem with a bird on a fox, most likely a reference to the surname of the painter: Vos (fox). Within the wreath also Latin text: 'PURO ASTU ET LABORE'. Inscribed in oval frame: 'MARTINUS DE VOS BELGA ANTVERPIANUS PICTOR SOLERTISS AETATIS SUAE LX', signed on the bottom: 'Jos: Heinz Inuen: / Car. Collaert excud. / G: Sadler scalpt: ' In cartouche underneath: 'AD M. VULPIUM IN EIUS IMAGINE / Hic Pictura tibi, hinc cedit Tritonia laurum / Illa manum VULPI, haec suspicit ingenium'. Engraving on paper, trimmed to plate mark; total: 293 x 234 mm; state II/3; some dirt, on the verso traces of previous mounts; Hollstein 340, Wurzbach 166. Seller Inventory # 60617
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Title: [Antique print, engraving ca 1592] Portrait ...
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