Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves (half-length)

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 15.2 x 10.7 cm (6 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6982
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1854; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1957
Signed upper left: [?] IH.W.
Marks watermark; verso, collector's mark in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6982; in graphite: M3/4
Inscriptionsin plate, in rectangular box below image: WILT NV RAEN EN VERSTAEN MIIN SIN /EN LET IN DE PAEN TE GAEN SO HIER SIIN IN
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897