Portrait of Cornelius Jansen
- Bookshop: Bookshop The Online Portrait Gallery (Netherlands)
- Publishing year: c. 1660
- Subjects: Portrait
- Shipment weight: 500 g
Bibliographic details
Portrait of Cornelius Jansen. Born 28 October 1585 in Acquoy, The Netherlands. Died 6 May 1638 in Ypres, Belgium. Copper engraving, c. 1660. Reasonable condition. Margins trimmed to the plate mark. Paper a bit soiled. Some minor spotting. Verso: blank. Mounted onto a later album leaf. Provenance: collection Dr. J.G. de Lint, with his collection label on the verso of the mount. Note: dimensions reflect the entire leaf, excluding the mount. Dimensions: 164 x 114 mm. Cornelius Jansen was Bishop, Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Ypres, and Father of the theological movement Jansenism.