Antique Portrait of Louis IV by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Ludovicus IV. Franc. Rex, XV. Brab. Princ.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Louis IV (920 - 954), called d'Outremer or Transmarinus, reigned as King of Western Francia from 936 to 954. He was a member of the Carolingian dynasty, the son of Charles III and Eadgifu, a daughter of King Edward the Elder. With coat of arms and armour. 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.