Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761)

Portrait of William III, Prince of Orange

细节

Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761)
Portrait of William III, Prince of Orange
signed 'P. Tanjé del.'
red chalk counterproofs, brown ink framing lines, one incised, a drawn oval
190 x 155 mm. (2)

刻印

Anonymous, in reverse, 1749, for the Rotterdam Bibliophile Society.

拍品专文

Tanjé copied the portrait of William III by Willem Wissing (1653-1687), while the composition of the print, which incorporated the portrait, was designed by Gerard Sanders (1702-1767). The present drawing is closely comparable to the mezzotint by Gerard Valck (1651/2-1726) after Sir Peter Lely's picture. Prince William III (1650-1702) married the later Mary Queen of England in 1677, and became King of England in 1689.