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Source Description
This portrait shows a young man in half-length, his face in profile to the left, with blue eyes, thick curly hair, full beard and moustache, his left hand on the hilt of his sword, his right hand grasping white gloves. He wears a black velvet doublet, with an embroidered falling linen collar and a gold locket hanging from a gold chain. Before him is a table covered with a green cloth, inscribed in gilding in Italian: NE MORTE NE FORTVNA CONTRA QVESTA POSSENZA. After QVESTA is the monogram which stands for P. Cor (Pierre Courteys). On the blue background runs an inscription in Latin: ANNO AETAT[is] SVE 2[7?], and along the oval edge, a second Latin inscription: NE.MEMOREM.NOSTRI.HEC.REDAT.IMAGO.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
36412
label
Portrait of a Nobleman
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
36412
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of a Nobleman
description
This portrait shows a young man in half-length, his face in profile to the left, with blue eyes, thick curly hair, full beard and moustache, his left hand on the hilt of his sword, his right hand grasping white gloves. He wears a black velvet doublet, with an embroidered falling linen collar and a gold locket hanging from a gold chain. Before him is a table covered with a green cloth, inscribed in gilding in Italian: NE MORTE NE FORTVNA CONTRA QVESTA POSSENZA. After QVESTA is the monogram which stands for P. Cor (Pierre Courteys). On the blue background runs an inscription in Latin: ANNO AETAT[is] SVE 2[7?], and along the oval edge, a second Latin inscription: NE.MEMOREM.NOSTRI.HEC.REDAT.IMAGO.
provenance
Andrew Fountaine of Narford Hall, Norfolk, England [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, June 16, 1884, lot 283; Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, Paris, April 17, 1893, lot 536; Charles Borradaile, Brighton, England, before 1897, by purchase; George Robinson Harding, London, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1559 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Enamels
plaques
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
16.5
height
12.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 1/2 x W: 4 13/16 in. (16.5 x 12.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
See description.
med
painted enamel on copper
creator_ids
2005
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
2299
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
c8720aa1602005b9