Jan Nicquet

1595

Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image displays an upper body portrait of a man turned slightly to the left, with a stern expression, a beard and mustache. He has short, dark, wavy hair and wears a detailed ruff around his neck, a decorated doublet with buttons, and a cloak over his shoulders. The man's left hand holds a brush-like object. In the background is a coat of arms with a shield, heraldic symbols, a helmet with a plume, all against a patterned backdrop. The image is framed by a border with inscribed text along the upper and lower edges.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15.3 × 10.8 cm (6 × 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.14.932

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 236, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

acquired 1808[?] by Thomas Thane [1782-1846], London (Lugt 810). W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 236, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

above portrait, in plate: Non. nec Ista quesivi. Ma. I Nicquet / Aetat. Suae. 56. Ao. 1595; in image at right, in plate: HG; lower left, in margin below image, in plate: Tu mea non vultum, sobols, vanamque figuram / Conspice, sed laudis facta Imitanda dedy / Nicquiettus, Iusta Corpus Ratione guberno, / Me sequere: Effigies Viva Parentis eris. (You, my son, look not upon my face nor solely at my appearance, but I have also performed praisworthy deeds worthy of emulation. I, Nicquet, direct my Body in the Right Manner. Follow me and you will be the Living Image of your father.); lower right, in margin below image, in plate: Gods Beelt, o mensch, sijt ghij. Soomen In u aenschout / Deught and Eerbaerheijt, die boven die Sonn' blicket / Als syn wederschijnsel Datselve om u houwt / Mijn kinderen vred'saem, En onder syn hant Nicquet. (God's image art thoughh, oh man. While in you one detects Virtue and Honour, that glitters above the Sun, as his reflection. Remember this my children, peacefully, and yield to his hand.)
[translations from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 163.]

Markings

vero, in black ink, by hand of collector Thomas Thane: Enaht / oct. 12[?] - 08

Wikidata ID

Q65356284

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