Portret van Nostradamus, Christian von Mechel, after Gabriël Metsu, 1762

Title(s)

Portret van Nostradamus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-53.320

Catalogue reference

• Wüthrich (Von Mechel) 61

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Christian von Mechel (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Gabriël Metsu (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Denis-Charles Buldet (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1762

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 435 mm × width 245 mm

What

• hourglass
• sharpening pen (quill) (+ in workshop, laboratory)
• armorial bearing, heraldry

Who

• César Nostradamus

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Das Oeuvre des Kupferstechers Christian von Mechel : vollständiges Verzeichnis der von ihm geschaffene und verlegten graphischen Arbeiten, Dl. 2, p. 25, cat.nr. 61