Author: Aegidius Saedeler (ca. 1570-1629), after Joseph Heintz I (1564-1609)
Title: [Antique print, engraving ca 1592] Portrait of Maerten de Vos, A. Saedeler, ca. 1592, 1 p.
Description: Portrait of the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, as 60 years old man. Two allegorical figures on the sides, Minerva and Rhetoric, are holding a laurel wreath above the portrait. Within the wreath an emblem with a bird on a fox, most likely a reference to the surname of the painter: Vos (fox). Within the wreath also Latin text: 'PURO ASTU ET LABORE'. Inscribed in oval frame: 'MARTINUS DE VOS BELGA ANTVERPIANUS PICTOR SOLERTISS AETATIS SUAE LX', signed on the bottom: 'Jos: Heinz Inuen: / Car. Collaert excud. / G: Sadler scalpt: ' In cartouche underneath: 'AD M. VULPIUM IN EIUS IMAGINE / Hic Pictura tibi, hinc cedit Tritonia laurum / Illa manum VULPI, haec suspicit ingenium'. Engraving on paper, trimmed to plate mark; total: 293 x 234 mm; state II/3; some dirt, on the verso traces of previous mounts; Hollstein 340, Wurzbach 166.

Keywords: Artist portraits|Onderwerpen