[3] Dirck Bouts (Pictorum aliquot celebrium, præcipué Germaniæ Inferioris, effigies; series title)

Beschrijving

Portrait of Dirck Bouts, seated on a chair with brushes in his hand. 3rd plate of the series; I part. Inscription on the bottom: ‘THEODORO HARLEMIO PICTORI / Huc et ades, Theodore, tuam quoque Belgica semper / Laude nihil ficta tollet ad astra manum, / Ipsa tuis rerum genitrice expressa figuris / Te Natura sibi dum timet arte parem’. ‘3’ added in pen on the bottom left. Copy in reverse direction to Cock 1572. On the verso collectors’ marks: ‘Kupferstich Sammlung Der Konigl Museen’ L.1606, L.2482 and Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler L. 2529.