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Jan van Montfort

Jan van Montfort
 (c. 1649)
from the Iconography (Icones Principum...) series

Medium
engraving
Measurements
24.5 × 19.7 cm (image) 26.9 × 20.2 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 153 ii/(v) (van Dyck); Hollstein 134 ii/iv (Jode II); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 139 ii/v
Edition
2nd of (5) states
Printing/Publishing
published by Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Antonius can Dyck pinxit.
printed in ink l.c.: Petrus de Iode ſculpsit.
printed in ink l.r.: Ioannes Meyſſens excudit Antuerpiæ
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: D. IONNES DE MONTFORT SERENISSIMORVM ARCHIDVCVM ET PRINCIPVM BELII / ALBERTI ET ELISABETHÆ AVLARVM PRIMARIVS CONSTITVTOR ET EXORNATOR, NEC / NON REGIS CATHOLICI MONETARVM CITRA MONTES CONSILIARIVS, ET MAGISTER / GENERALIS, NOBILIVMQɜ (Qɜ joined) DOMINARVM PALATII SERENIS.MÆ ( . under MÆ) ELISABETHÆ INVIOLATVS CVSTOS.
Accession Number
270-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

In 1959 the NGV acquired a remarkable collection of Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Iconography print series. An ambitious collaboration between van Dyck and numerous engravers, Iconography is possibly the most influential collection of portraits in European art. Van Dyck is regarded as one of the greatest portraitists of the golden age, and has been described as ‘the etcher of portraits par excellence’. For the Iconography series he etched seventeen plates himself, and supervised the creation of many more. The first edition, comprising 100 portraits, was published in 1645, with further engravings added in later editions.

Subjects (general)
Another Work Costume Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists' portraits keys (hardware) medallists menswear reproductive prints ruffs sculptors series (object groupings)
Movements
Baroque