Antique Portrait of Wenceslaus I by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Wenceslaus et Ioanna. XXXIV. Brab. Princeps.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Wenceslaus I (1337 - 1383), the first Duke of Luxembourg. On the right his wife Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (1322 - 1406), also known as Jeanne, the heiress of Duke John III. With coat of arms 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.