20. Jan Lievens
(1607-1670)

Jacques Gaultier

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Lievens, Jacques Gaultier

Jacques Gaultier

Etching, ca. 1630-33, 262 x 204 mm., Bartsch 59, Dutuit 58 iii/iv, Hollstein 23 iii/v, ex collection: unidentified brown ink signature. Gaultier (ca. 1600-1670) was court lutenist in London from about 1617 to 1647, and Lievens, after his roommate, Rembrandt, left Leyden, went to London for a time where he etched this now celebrated portrait. A very fine impression, the guidelines for the text still showing, on laid paper trimmed just outside the subject and text; a tiny hole in the sky.