Thème :

500e anniversaire de la naissance de Charles-Quint (1500-1558)

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Artiste :

Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675)
The engraver Lucas Vorsterman I was born in Bommel (Gelderland) in 1595. His earliest print is dated in 1607. In 1617-18 he worked in Antwerpen at the workshop of Rubens. He became master in 1619-20 in Antwerp. He engraved from 1618 till 1621 a series of masterpieces to Rubens, which are dated in 1620 and 1621, one in 1623. In April 1622 he splitted with Rubens because of an argument. He has also worked in England under service of the earls Thomas Arundel and Karls I from 1624 till 1630. Since then he was again active in Antwerpen, where he took a part at the achievement of Anthonie van Dyck's ,,Iconography", 14 engravings and 28 portraits.
Lucas Vorsterman I has next to it also engraved to the artists Ger. Segers, Adr. Brouwer, Corn. Schut, Nik. van der Horst and to the elder masters like Raffael, Holbein, Elsheimer, Pieter Brueghel and the engraver Hendrik Goltzius.
Lucas Vorsterman I has worked from 1616 till 1666. His pupils were Paulus Pontius, Marinus and Jan Witdoeck.
Lucas Vorsterman died eventually , according to contemporaries, blind in 1675.

Ladimistri nel' Arcipelago, par Lucas Vorsterman,
d'après Jan Peeters Burin 10,5 x 26,4 cm Signé Legs Wittert (1903)

in Les Vues des Dardanelles (Phanar, ...) publiées à Anvers par Jan Peeters à la fin du XVIIe siècle.

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Taille :	.. x .. mm	Dessinateur :	P. Schopper
Dentelure :	13 1/2	Couleur :	Multicolore
Valeur(s) :	sans valeur faciale indiquée (lettre A) - (16 f)	N° Scott :
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