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Description: | RU inscr. on plate b.l "Ce fameux Createur de tant de beaux visages- /s'estoit affez tire dans fes rares ouvrages, / Ou la Nature et L'art admirent leurs efforts- / Il tenoit le desseins du Temps et de l'Enuie- / Et Luy de quy les mains reffuscitent les Morts / Pouvoit bien par foy mefme eternifier la vie"; inscr. on plate b.r."Mais quand il eust fallu laiffer quelque autre marque / Qui malgre les rigueurs du sort et de la Parque/ Le monstrast tout entier a la Posterite / Son huile et fes couleurs pour le faire revivre, / Au goust des mieux sensez auroient toujours este / Un Charme plus puissant q[ue] l'eau fort et le Cuivre".
inscr. on plate b. c. "A Claude Deruet escuier. Chevalier de l'ordre de Portugal. Son fidele Amy.Iaques . Callot. Callot fecit / A Nancy 1632."
CRE CALLOT, Jacques; (French; 1592-1635) State IV/V. Callot and Deruet were both artists at the court of Lorraine, and the verses on the portrait praise Deruet's art. The translation of these verses is: " This famous creator of so many beautiful faces / Had portayed himself sufficiently in his rare works / In which Nature and Art admire their efforts / He retains the intention og Time and Boredom / And he whose hands resuscitated the dead / Was well able to evoke his life eternal. / But if it were necessary to leave some other mark / Which , despite the harchness of fate and [Parque?] / Would show him as a whole man to Posterity / To make him relive, his oil and colours / Would have always had, to the taste of the best judges, / A charm more powerful than acid and copper."
The portait appears to be a tribute to Deruet's newly acquired "gentilllery", as he received a confirmation of nobility from the Duke in 1632. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : CASTLE : FATHER : SON : PAINTER : STAGE : NANCY : THEATRE : FORTIFICATION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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