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
