Buste van keizer Commodus als Herkules, Jan de Bisschop, after anonymous, 1666 - 1671

Title(s)

Buste van keizer Commodus als Herkules
Commodus (title on object)
Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

57/57

Object number

RP-P-1904-262

Catalogue reference

• Gelder&Jost 57-3(3)
• Hollstein Dutch 6

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antonius, zoon van [...]’

Artist

• print maker: Jan de Bisschop (mentioned on object)
• after sculpture by: anonymous (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1666 - 1671

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 107 mm

What

• emperor Commodus as Hercules

Credit line

• Gift of G.J. Boekenoogen, Leiden

Acquisition

gift 1904

Copyright

Public domain

• Berckheyde - Bodding, F.W.H. 1962- Hollstein, p. 44, cat.nr. 6
• Jan de Bisschop and his icones and paradigmata: classical antiquities and Italian drawings for artistic instrumentation in seveneenth century Holland, Jan Gerrit van 1903- Gelder, p. 281, cat.nr. 57