print
- Museum number
- 1935,1213.1.75
- Title
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Object: Simon Vouet
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Series: Iconographie ou vies des hommes illustres du XVII. siècle ... les portraits peints par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck
- Description
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Portrait of Simon Vouet, half-length directed to left but looking towards the viewer, with long curly hair, and a moustache and beard, wearing a cloak, collar and doublet buttoned at the sleeves, his left hand holding a cloth and resting on a book which rests on a square stand; seventh lettered state with initials of Gillis Hendricx burnished; after Anthony van Dyck; from a 1759 bound edition containing a series of 125 portraits, mainly of Van Dyck's Iconography (Arkstée & Merkus: Amsterdam and Leipzig)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1630-1645
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 176 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression of the same state see 1852,1211.128; for an impression of the third state and comment see R,1b.106; for comment on Anthony van Dyck's Iconography portrait series see R,1b.47.
For more information on the bound volume see also 1935,1213.1.1.+.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed on the fly-leaf, in pen and ink: "Thomas Gibbs". Inscribed on the cover sheet, in pencil: "£10-10/-" (crossed out) and "£3-3/-".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,1213.1.75