About the Artwork
Jacques de la Faille
ca. 1589
Hendrick Goltzius (Artist) Dutch, 1558-1617 Harman Adolfz (Publisher) Dutch, active ca. 1607
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 inches (20 × 13 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 3/8 inches (20.6 × 13.7 cm)
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Gift of Albert Kahn
40.11
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, center left edge: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, center right edge: Fe Inscribed, lower center: Harman Adolfz excudit. Harlem Inscribed, in oval border around portrait, clockwise from upper center: LEGES TVERI, ET PATRIAM DEVENDERE, ARMATVS ADSTO, ET PRO SALVTE CIVIVM. PERIRE FORTIS, SANGVINEMQVE EFFVNDERE. HAC VNA VIRTVS CIVIS, ET BONI DVCIS.
Provenance
Albert Kahn;1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hendrick Goltzius, Jacques de la Faille, ca. 1589, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Albert Kahn, 40.11.
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