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Object Type
print
Museum number
P,1.295
Description
Portrait of Maximilen de Béthune, Duc de Sully, bust lightly turned to right, looking to front, balding, bearded, with lace ruff, gorget, and sash fastened at the shoulder with a bejewelled brooch. 1612, this state 1614 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Jacob Matham
Print made by:
Jacob de Fornazeris
(sometimes wrongly attributed to)
After:
Elias van den Bossche
Published by:
Paul de La Houve
School/style
Dutch
French
Flemish
Production date
1612
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
362 millimetres
(plate-mark)
Width:
280 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
The plate has sometimes been attributed to Jacques de Fornazeris (see IFF, and Manuel du Peintre-Graveur) but in an earlier state the print is signed on plate by Jacob Matham.
Bibliographic references
Pommier 2011 / Au maillet d'argent, Jacques Fornazeris graveur et éditeur d'estampes
(R7, second state)
(Matham)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(229.III)
(Matham)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(370)
(Matham)
Duplessis 1859 / Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Abraham Bosse
(vol. XI p.118)
(Fornazeris)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(14)
(Fornazeris)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully
Acquisition date
1810
(before)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
P,1.295