PCT-61875

Antique Portrait of Godfrey III by Collaert (c.1620)

  • Condition: Good, given age. Some small spots in the margins. Latin text on verso. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
  • Date: c.1620
  • Overall size: 19.7 x 32.2 cm.
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.. Antique Portrait of Godfrey III by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Godefridus III. in Cunis, XXVI. Brab. Princ.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Godfrey III (1142 - 1190), count of Louvain (or Leuven), landgrave of Brabant, margrave of Antwerp, and duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VIII) from 1142 to his death. With coat of arms, a falcon and a dog. From: 'Annales ducum seu Principum Brabantiae totiusque' by Francicus van der Haer (also Haraeus). Published in Antwerp by Moretum & Moreti c. 1620.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'J. Collaert' after 'Otto van Veen'. Jan Collaert, member of the famous Flemish Collaert family of engravers, 16th and 17th centuries. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, (c.1556 – 6 May 1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.