Portrait engraving by Theodor de Bry (1528-1598)
[1599].
Image size to platemark ca. 147 x 115 mm; sheet size 200 x 159 mm. The composer is depicted bust-length within a lettered oval border wearing a ruff, a medallion around his neck, holding an open book of music, within a decorative border incorporating floral motifs, squirrels, and cherubs with 2 lines of text to cartouche below "Quantum exit melicâ ... abit ille choris."
With page number "286" to upper margin.
Slightly worn, browned, and foxed; small ink stain to blank outer margin; binding holes to inner margin
British Museum number 1864,0611.43. Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (225-314). Muller II 1853: Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (undescribed). van Someren 1888: Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders (undescribed). Komma 230. Kinsky p. 89, no. 3.
The present engraving was published in the famous 16th century biographical work "Icones Quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione" [Icons of Fifty Illustrious Men Outstanding in Doctrine and Erudition" by Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) containing engraved portraits of prominent cultural figures by noted Flemish goldsmith and engraver de Bry.
Lasso "was one of the most prolific and versatile of 16th-century composers, and in his time the best-known and most widely admired musician in Europe." James Haar in Grove Music Online.
Item #41165
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