Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5480321
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
GERARD SEGERS
Year
1662
Print run
Dimensions
14,3 x 11,3
Printing office
Theme
Details

Bust portrait of Gerard Seghers (1591-1651). He wears a chain around his neck and has his arms folded. In the margin the name of the person portrayed and a four-line caption in French. Seghers was a Brabant Baroque painter and one of the leading Caravaggists in the Southern Netherlands. Etching and engraving by Pieter II de Jode (1596-1674), after the painting by Gerard Seghers (1591-1651). Published in Antwerp by Joannes Meyssens, in all probability in 1662, in: "Het gulden Cabinet vanande noble vry Schilder-const". Signed in print. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.

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