Author: HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
Title: [King Charles II of Spain]. Brussels, Jean Leonard, [ca. 1685]. 60×50 cm. Allegorical portrait of King Charles II of Spainas a Roman Emperor, with a globe showing the Americas, numerous allegorical figures and classical gods, his arms on the wall in the background and his crowned CC II monogram on a staff with a banner. Framed, in a passe partout.
Description: Allegorical etching and engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), especially rare in its present first state, depicting King Charles II of Spain(1661-1700) in Imperial Roman armour, perhaps based on the statue of the Emperor Trajan. It was meant to suggest that his American colonies made him a great emperor. In very good condition.l Atlas van Stolk 3106 note; Landwehr, De Hooghe etcher, p. 235; cf. Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) IX, p. 126, De Hooghe 250 (1704 state); Muller, Historieplaten, 3329 (1704 state).

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