Portrait engraving of the composer age 62 by Nicolas de l'Armessin (1638-1695) after Jacob van Campen
- 1682
1682. 190 x 138 mm. The composer is depicted bust-length within an oval border, wearing a lace collar and a chain around his neck, with cartouche identifying the sitter below.
Extracted from Bullart: Académie des Sciences et des Arts, Bruxelles, 1682, with letterpress text to verso.
Slightly worn, browned, and foxed; trimmed to within platemark; minor loss to upper and lower margins reinforced with narrow strips of backing paper to verso with remnants of two small hinges. British Museum number 1868,0328.819. IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (403-565). Muller II 1853 / Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (undescribed).
van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders. (3155).
Apparently based on the Johann Sadeler engraving of 1593, the source of both prints possibly the lost oil painting of ca. 1580. See Leuchtmann: Orlando di Lasso, plates II, 22, 18 and 16a.
Lasso "was one of the most prolific and versatile of 16th-century composers, and in his time the best-known and most widely admired musician in Europe." James Haar in Grove Music Online.
Extracted from Bullart: Académie des Sciences et des Arts, Bruxelles, 1682, with letterpress text to verso.
Slightly worn, browned, and foxed; trimmed to within platemark; minor loss to upper and lower margins reinforced with narrow strips of backing paper to verso with remnants of two small hinges. British Museum number 1868,0328.819. IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (403-565). Muller II 1853 / Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (undescribed).
van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders. (3155).
Apparently based on the Johann Sadeler engraving of 1593, the source of both prints possibly the lost oil painting of ca. 1580. See Leuchtmann: Orlando di Lasso, plates II, 22, 18 and 16a.
Lasso "was one of the most prolific and versatile of 16th-century composers, and in his time the best-known and most widely admired musician in Europe." James Haar in Grove Music Online.