JACOB DE GHEYN II
1565 Antwerp – 1629 The Hague |
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| The Great lion. |
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| Engraving, ca. 1590. Oval with text on square paper. |
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Signed in the plate “DGheyn fe.”
26.5 x 34.6 mm. Trimmed on the outer borderline.
Very good impression on laid paper attached to an old album sheet. |
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| Hollstein 298. 2(II), New Hollstein 170. 2(II) with the address of C.J.Visscher. |
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| Jacob de Gheyn first trained as an artist by his father and later in 1588 became a pupil of Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem. The depiction of the lion is already more naturalistic then the images from his contemporary artists. The lion is of course also the symbol of the House of Orange. Prince Maurits became a patron of the artist. |
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