Antique Print-PORTRAIT-LUCAS VAN GASSEL-de Boulonois-Hondius-c.1682

Portrait of Lucas Gassel, also known as Lucas Gassel van Helmont or Lucas van Helmont, a Flemish artist.

Made by Edme de Boulonois after Hendrik Hondius.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 14 x 19.2 cm (5.51 x 7.56 inch). Image size: 12.7 x 16.4 cm. (5 x 6.46 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Good condition. Paper a bit browned. Verso: French text. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PORTRAIT-LUCAS VAN GASSEL | PCO-C46-40

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Edme de Boulonois (1645-1682) was a Flemish engraver, active ca. 1682.

Biography artist: Hendrik Hondius / Hond, ‘the elder’ (1573-1650) was a Dutch designer and engraver from Duffel. He was a pupil of Jan Wierix and Jan Vredeman de Vries. He was a very active printmaker/publishers in the early part of the 17th. Century. He first worked abroad and then settled in The Hague. He mostly engraved portraits.