Onbekende man met anjer, Johannes Wierix, 1578

Title(s)

Onbekende man met anjer
Verganckeliick dan (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-67.124

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 2195

Inscriptions / marks

• caption: ‘Het Is Miinen Wil Dat Ick Lijde P.J.’
• date: ‘1578’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Landschap met een 45-jarige man (met de initialen P.J.?), gekleed volgens de mode van circa 1578. In zijn hand houdt hij een anjer. In de marge een onderschrift in het Nederlands.

Artist

• print maker: Johannes Wierix

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1578

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 217 mm × width 125 mm

What

• flowers: carnation
• (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilità humana, Fugacità delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanità (Ripa)
• clothing for the upper part of the body (DOUBLET) (+ men's clothes)
• neck-gear ~ clothing (with NAME) (+ men's clothes)
• sleeves (+ men's clothes)
• stockings, socks (+ men's clothes)
• shoes, sandals (+ men's clothes)
• trousers, breeches, etc. (BREECHES) (+ men's clothes)
• head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes)
• flowers
• language of flowers

When

• 1575 - 1599

Where

• Netherlands

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• The Wierix family : part X, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Marjolein Leesberg, Jan Van der Stock, p. 122, cat.nr. 2195