Lot Essay
After Hollstein 323.
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Portrait of the Emperor Rudolf II, bust-length, wearing armour, and a white collar and a laurel crown in a cartouche surrounded by allegorical figures
Details
After Aegidius Sadeler
Portrait of the Emperor Rudolf II, bust-length, wearing armour, and a white collar and a laurel crown in a cartouche surrounded by allegorical figures
inscribed 'RUDOLPHUS II ROMANORUM IMPERATOR AUGUSTUS: REX HUNGARIAE BOHEM: ETC.' and inscribed 'MANEBIT', 'CONSTABIT', 'MARSIESES', A DOMINO', 'TIRI', 'POSSEDOC..', 'INSTAT'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with gold and white, pen and brown framing lines, framed and glazed
318 x 279 mm.
Portrait of the Emperor Rudolf II, bust-length, wearing armour, and a white collar and a laurel crown in a cartouche surrounded by allegorical figures
inscribed 'RUDOLPHUS II ROMANORUM IMPERATOR AUGUSTUS: REX HUNGARIAE BOHEM: ETC.' and inscribed 'MANEBIT', 'CONSTABIT', 'MARSIESES', A DOMINO', 'TIRI', 'POSSEDOC..', 'INSTAT'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with gold and white, pen and brown framing lines, framed and glazed
318 x 279 mm.
Literature
C. von Prybram-Gladona, Unbekannte Zeichungen alter Meister aus europäischem Privatberitz, Munich, 1969, no.5.
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