Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const inhoudende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architecte[n], beldtho[u]wers ende plaetsnyders van dese eeuw.

4to: [2]-584 pp. (engr. title soiled and def., cut out and pasted on later paper, some dampstaining, mostly marginal).

18th-c. half polished calf, marbled paper on covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges.

First and only edition of this dictionary of (largely) contemporary painters, by the Lier poet C. de Bie (1627-1711), son of the painter Adriaan de Bie, and a magistrate and part-time writer and poet. Engr. ill.: title by C. Meyssens after A. van Diepenbeeck, 97 full-page portraits of painters by Meyssens and 5 full-page allegorical pl. The work can be seen as a 17th-c. continuation of the works of Vasari and Van Mander on Flemish and Dutch painters.
Ref. BB I:242-247:B-188 (ext. descr.). - Arntzen/Rainwater H55. - STCV.