$1,000.00
Spectacular portrait of the great Dutch Mannerist, Hendrick Goltzius. The portrait is engraved and the elaborate border is etched with the attributes of printmaking and the artist’s personal motto ‘Eer Boven Golt’ (Honour Above Gold), a play on the artist’s name.
Artist: Jonas Suyderhoef (1613-1686) after Jan Harmensz. Muller (1571-1628) after Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617)
Title: Portrait of Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1649
School: Dutch, XVIIth-century
Medium: engraving and etching
Dimensions: 405 x 265mm (plate and sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the image in a cartouche lower centre below the portrait << Henricus Goltzius / sculpturæ et picturæ ambitum / et amplitudinem pari / celeritate et fælicitate / occupans>>, in the image lower left to lower right border below the cartouche << I. Suyderhoef sculpsit ….. P. Soutman Excud. Cum Priuil.>> On the support on verso in brown ink and old inscription in English barely legible, information about the subject and the engraver (see image below)
Condition: fair, trimmed to the plate mark, fold mark at centre, loss top left corner repaired with drawn fragment, small tear lower right border (see image below)
Description: Portrait of Hendrik Goltzius, bust to right, wearing a skull-cap; in an oval surrounded by emblematic border; after Jan Muller who engraved after Hendrick Goltzius, first state of two.
Reference: Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish etchings) Suyderhoef, 78 i/ii; New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 752. See BM O,6.122 for a perfect impression
Provenance: Norman Blackburn Antiquarian Printseller, London, 1992, P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Portraits of Artists, Writers and Musicians, December 1976, cat. 4, no. 12
