Jan MULLER: Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert - 1590
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Engraving, 186 x 128 mm. Bartsch 34, New Hollstein 34, 2nd state (of 2).
Impression of the 2nd state (of 2) with Muller’s signature. Impressions of the first state are rare.
Very fine impression printed on laid paper, trimmed on the platemark or just outside. Small repaired tear in the upper right corner. The tips of upper and lower left corners restored.
Provenance: Pierre Mariette II (1634 - 1716) with his signature in ink and pen on the reverse followed by the date 1670 (Lugt 1789).
The Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert was engraved by Jan Muller after a painting by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, of which several versions are known. Jan Piet Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) indicates that a wash drawing by Muller preserved in Haarlem probably served as a working model for this engraving (Teylers Museum; Reznicek 1980, 9, ill.).
Judith Niessen notes in Cornelis van Haarlem 1562-1638 that: “The second portrait from that time is that of Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, which we only know thanks to the engraving Jan Muller made after it (ill. 83) and the worthless copies, of which the version in the Frans Hals Museum is the best (ill. 84). Cornelis may have painted Coornhert between 1586 and 1588, but the engraving was published only after Coornhert's death in 1590 (our translation).