5630 - Suavius, Lambert

Suavius, Lambert Portrait of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. Copperplate engraving. 40 x 28.4 cm. 1556. Wurzbach 45, Hollstein 80 III (of IV). This portrait depicts the famous cardinal, statesman, and art collector Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, whom Suavius had already portrayed two years earlier in another portrait (Hollstein 79). Both portraits were created during the period of Granvelle’s rise from secretary to Charles V to an independent statesman. During these years, he skillfully utilized the medium of printmaking to cement his reputation as a learned humanist. With the date, but preceding Hans Collaert’s address and the change in the lettering. Excellent, even impression on the left with a white margin; otherwise trimmed flush with the image. Slightly browned and spotted overall, smoothed center fold, small missing areas at the lower margin, additional marginal discoloration, small hole in the column on the left, other minor imperfections; mounted; still a good copy overall. Extremely rare. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.