print
- Museum number
- 1879,1011.109
- Title
- Series: Les Effigies des Souverains Princes et Ducs de Brabant
- Description
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Plate 49: Portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, bust-length, three-quarter face to the right, with beard, in armour wearing pendant for the Order of the Golden Fleece, with sky visible in background, in an arched frame; coat-of-arms with dedication below; after Titian. c.1663
Engraving
- Production date
- 1663 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Height: 229 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 118 millimetres
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Width: 155 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of fifty-three illustrations for Jean Meyssens' "Les Pourtraicts de tous les Souverains Princes et Ducs de Brabant", the first of three parts bound together as a series of one hundred thirty-eight illustrations for "Les Effigies des Souverains Princes et Ducs de Brabant" (published in Antwerp, c. 1633); for further comments see 1879,1011.60. After Titian's equestrian portrait of Charles V at Muhlberg, 1548 (Prado). For two other portraits of Charles V bound in this series, see 1879,1011.156 and 1879,1011.194.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1879,1011.109