Live auction - Lot 59
[Dutch]
Johan de Witt.
17th c
Hammer price: €
750
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engraving, 53,0 x 38,9 cm, laid paper with watermark (crowned shield with fleur-de-lys), signed "L. Visscher sculp.", Dutch and Latin text (few sm. stains, traces of former mount on verso).
Large portrait of the lawyer Johan de Witt (1625-1672), grand pensionary of Holland. A very similar painting is in Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum, inv. SK-A-13). 2nd state before the plate was reworked.
Ref. Hollstein XL.244-245.31.II (of III).
Prov. Henri Geraldi (stamp). - Armorial bookpl.