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Balthazar Gerbier
(1649)
from the Images de divers hommes d’esprit sublime … series, published by Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp 1649
Medium
engraving
Measurements
14.1 × 11.4 cm (image) 16.5 × 11.7 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Antwerp, Flanders
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 322 i/iii (van Dyck); Hollstein 275 (Meyssens)
Edition
1st of 3 states
Printing/Publishing
published by Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Ant. van Dyck pinxit.
printed in ink l.r.: Ioan. Meÿſſens excudit.
printed in ink l.c.: BALTHASAR GERBIER / Il a faict mervaille en illuminature et ademeuré long temps en Italie, il fut paintre du Duc de / Bocquingam et apres du Roy d’Angleterre le quel lui faiſoit Chevalier, par ſa vertu; et apres ſon / Agent a Bruſſelles, en l’an 1630 et a Londres maiſtre de la cermonie, il eſt natif s’Anvers / l’an 1592.
Accession Number
X379-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
black-and-white (colours) collars (neckwear) courtiers Gerbier, Balthazar half figures men (male humans) miniaturists nobles (aristocrats)
Movements
Baroque