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Constantijn Huygens
Jonas Suyderhoef (Netherlandish, about 1613–1686)
undated
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 12.3 × 7.7 cm (4 13/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Washington Irving Jenkins
Accession NumberM26916
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Wussin; not in Hollstein
DescriptionEarlier cataloguing at the MFA recorded this print as a portrait of Christiaan Huygens. It is, in fact, of Christiaan's father, Constantijn.
InscriptionsIn plate, below image: Ordinis et Veri et Justi caonstanter amantem / Hugenium si quis noscere curat, hic est. / Quicquid ad has quiscumq[ue] vides accedere laudes, / Fama, levis, mendax, garrula finxit anus. / CONSTANTER.
ProvenanceBy 1916, Washington Irving Jenkins (b. 1848 - d. 1916; Lugt 4831), Clinton, MA; 1917, bequest of Jenkins to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: August 1, 1917)