Raimond Poisson as Crispin

Gerard Edelinck after Theodor Netscher

Associated Names
Gerard Edelinck

Artist, Flemish, 1640 - 1707

Theodor Netscher

Artist After, Netherlandish, 1661 - 1732

The image shows a person standing with a slight lean to their right, facing the viewer. The person has a hand on their hip and holds a hat in their left hand. The individual wears a distinctive costume with a ruffled collar and cuffs, a buttoned jacket, knee-length breeches, long stockings, and buckled shoes. The background consists of trees and foliage, suggesting an outdoor setting with an open sky above.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Professor Sydney Freedberg

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.2 x 36.5 cm (19 x 14 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 51.6 x 40.2 cm (20 5/16 x 15 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.209.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 299, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: T. Netscher Pinx.; lower center in plate: a Paris chez I. Audran graveur du Roy au Gobelins; lower right in plate: G. Edelinck Effigiem Sculp. C.P.R.; across bottom in plate: Le Peintre et l Multiplier l'original. CB e Graveur nous ont dans ce Portrait / Du celebre Crispin donne la ressemblance / Il vit, Il va parler , mais est il aucun trait / Qui just de ses talens nous prindre l'excellence / Puis qu'onnespere point de revoir so Egal; / Pour l'honneur de la Comedie / Que ne peut on ainsy que la Copie / Multiplier l'original. CB

Wikidata ID

Q74896571

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