Pieter Claesz. Soutman (c. 1580-1657)

Portrait of Emperor Frederick III, bust-length, slightly turned to the left

細節

Pieter Claesz. Soutman (c. 1580-1657)
Portrait of Emperor Frederick III, bust-length, slightly turned to the left
inscribed 'fredericus.III Imp:' and inscribed (?) '..fluweel griedt' (?) (recto); with an old inscription 'M. Mierevelt (?)' (verso)
black and red chalk, pen and grey and brown ink, grey and brown wash, the outlines partly incised, black ink framing lines, watermark grapes
319 x 254 mm.

來源

Jhr. J. Goll van Franckenstein (L. 2987), his number 'N 1812.' Dr. C.D. Ginsburg (L. 1145).

刻印

J. Suyderhoef, 1644, for the series Effigies Imperatorum Domus Austriaciae (Holl. [XXVIII] 50), in reverse.

拍品專文

Drawings by Soutman for a series of comparable drawings of crowned heads are at Windsor, C. White, C. Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish drawings of the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 323-26, nos. 451-53, illustrated. The artist's comparable drawings of Prince William of Orange, other members of the House of Orange and Hendrick Goltzius are in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, M. Schapelhouman, P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, London, 1998, nos. 294-300, illustrated.