Author: Abraham Blooteling (1649-1690) after Frans van Mieris I (1635-1681) Title: Antique print, mezzotint I Portrait of Frans van Mieris (I), published ca. 1680, 1 p.
Description: Portrait of Frans Mieris, half-length standing almost in profile to left, looking to front, his hand resting on his waist, a cloak worn around his shoulders, part of a classical building to right and others in the distance.Inscribed below: Dus kon FRANS MIERIS ... / ... zou bien.Signed: F.v.Mieris delin. / A. Blooteling Fecit et exc. / W. v. Heemskerk.After a self-portrait drawing by Frans van Mieris in the British Museum, inv. 1854,0628.17.[NL] Portret van de schilder Frans van Mieris met de hand in de zij. Op de achtergrond de contouren van een stad. Antieke prent door Abraham Blooteling. Mezzotint on laid paper, with some margin; total: 228 x 157 mm; state II/2, bottom left corner missing, just outside the plate mark; folding traces, otherwise in good condition; mounted on fine paper passepartout. New Hollstein 185.
Keywords: Artist portraits|Portraits
Price: EUR 242.00 = appr. US$ 263.02 Seller: Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
- Book number: K80150