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[Painting] - DE BIE, Cornelis - Het gulden ca

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[Painting] - DE BIE, Cornelis - Het gulden ca
[Painting] - DE BIE, Cornelis - Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const inhoudende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architecten, beeldthouwers ende plaetsnyders van dese eeuw. Antwerpen, (J. Van Montfort for) Jan Meyssens, 1661, 4to, contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, [2]-585-[3] pp. Excellent copy. Cfr. ill. € 750/1000 Only edition of a 17th dictionary of (largely) contemporary painters, compiled by Cornelis de Bie (1627-1711), son of the painter Adriaan de Bie, and a magistrate and part-time writer and poet. Engraved title by Cornelis Meyssens after A. van Diepenbeek and 98 engraved portraits of painters, taken from "Images de divers hommes d'esprit sublime", 1649. Bookplate William Andrews Clark. Ref. Bibl. Belgica I 242-247 B-188 (ext. description). Funck p. 278. Not in Matagne (Namur).