Ventes live - Lot 620
Portrait of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606).
Leuven, 1601
€ 450 / 650
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Description du lot
15,6 x 11 cm, sign. "Io. Baptista Zangrius fe.".
Bust portrait in an oval medallion with inscriptions: "Moribus antiquis" and "V.C. Iustus Lipsius historiographus regius et professor aetatis anno LIIII". In the corners, 4 small emblematic medallions with figures and inscriptions evoking his work: "Contantia", "Politica", "Militia", "Historia". Below, a caption: "Caetera conveniunt emblemata: defuit unum. / Phoenica: sculptor, addere debueras. / Adde igitur Phoenica, (nisi si pingere solem / Mauis) Lipsiadae tum dabis effigiem".
Ref. Rijksmuseum RP-P-1893-A-17914 (issue without the inscription "Moribus antiquis").