Crispin
Gérard Edelinck, Dutch, 1640 - 1707
after Theodorus Netscher, Dutch, 1661 - 1732
not dated
Engraving on paper
Overall: 17 3/16 × 13 11/16 in. (43.7 × 34.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.431
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower center: Le Peintre et le Graveur nous ont dans ce Portrait/Du celebre Crispin donne la ressemblance/Il vit, Il va parler, mais est il aucun trait/Qui pust de ses talens nous peindre l'excellence/Puis qu'onn'espere point de revoir son Egal;/Pour l'honneur de la Comedie/Que ne peut on ainsy que la Copie/Multiplier l'Original.; lower left: T. Netscher Pinx.; center: a Paris chez I. Audran graveur du Roy au Gobelins; lower right: G. Edelinck Effigiem Sculp. C.P.R.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
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