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This etching was executed after a drawing by Frans Wouters (1612-1659). The portrait was published in Cornelis de Bie's Gulden Cabinet.
The "Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const" (The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting) is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie (1627–c. 1715), published in Antwerp in 1662. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the Southern Netherlands. The work is a very important source of information on the artists it describes. It formed the principal source of information for later art historians such as Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman.
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