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Nicolaus Bruyant
(1649)
from the Images de divers hommes d'esprit sublime ... series, published by Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp 1649
Medium
engraving
Measurements
15.7 × 10.6 cm (image) 15.9 × 11.0 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 319 i/ii (van Dyck); Hollstein 59 ii/ii (Pontius)
Edition
1st of 2 states
Printing/Publishing
published by Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Ant. van Dyck pinxit.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: P.Pontius ſculpſit.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: Io.Meyſſens excudit.
printed in ink in oval frame around sitter u.c.: SAPIENS SV = PERAT ASTRA.
printed in ink (in image) (on plinth) l.c.: NICOLAUS / BRUYANT / ASTROLOGUS ET MATHEMATICUS / ATREBATENSIS / NATUS M·D·LXXII· X APRILIS / DENATUS M·DC·XXXVIII·XII·IUL.
Accession Number
X391-5
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)
Another Work Portraits Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
Subjects (specific)
astrologers callipers frames (ornament areas) globes (cartographic spheres) mathematicians men (male humans) reproductive prints
Movements
Baroque