Live auction - Lot 51
[Dutch]
Portrait medallion of Jan van Broeckhoven.
GOLTZIUS, Hendrick
Hammer price: €
2.000
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Haarlem, 1579
Oval engraving, 8 x 6 cm, laid paper with partial watermark (crown), signed and dated in the plate at lower left "HGoltzius" (ms. number "37b" in brown ink at lower right corner).
Very rare portrait medallion of Jan van Broekhoven, mayor of the city of Leiden, aged 66. Lettered around the oval "GELUCK VOOR GUNST ÆTAT SUÆ 66 HGoltzius Ao 1579". Very nice impression of the second and final state, with added lettering on the window sill behind the sitter, stating "I. Van Broeckhov. Burg.Me. der stadt Leiden". Wide margins with writing in red pencil "I.v. Broekhoven.".
Ref. New Hollstein (Hendrick Goltzius) 210.II (of II).