Hendrik Smet (Henricius Smetius). Line engraving by J. Grandhomme.
- Granthomme, Jacques, approximately 1560-
- Date:
- 1598
- Reference:
- 8810i
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[Heidelberg]
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Henricus Smetius Frid. III Elect. Pal. ad Renum et Io. Casimiri filii quondam medicus aeta an LXII. Smetius hic ille est, gemini mera gloria Phoebi: / seu melicae artis obit, seu medicae artis opus. / Cuius item si non quanta est sub corde moratur, / Inque homines pietas, relligio inque Deum: / Frustra alibi certe quanta est quaeratur in orbe, / Inque homines pietas, relligio inque Deum. J. Grut. Jacobus Granthom(m)e fe.
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Three Latin couplets below the portrait are by Janus Gruterus (1560-1627), who was, like Hendrik Smet, a Fleming who had settled in Heidelberg, where they were joined by the engraver Granthomme, arriving from Paris
References note
A.-P.-F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française, tome 10, Paris 1868, p. 269, no. 80 ("Smet, Henri …")
André Linzeler, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du seizième siècle, tome premier, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1932, p. 452, no. 25 ("25. Smet (Henri).En buste, de trois quarts à droite, dans un encadrement ovale sur le bord duquel on lit: 'Henricus Smetius Frid. III Elect. Pal. ad Renvm et Io. Casimiri filii quondam medicus aeta an LXII-1598. J. Grut. Jacobus Granthôme fe.'. H. 0m100 -L. 0m085. …. Il existe un IIe état comportant de nombreux travaux postérieurs. … Robert-Dumesnil, X, p. 269, 80.")
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2755.1
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Wellcome Collection 8810i
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