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Prince Rupert of the Rhine1658
- Attribution
- Prince Rupert of the Rhine (German, 1619-1682) after Pietro della Vecchia (Italian, 1605-1678)
- Medium
- Mezzotint, with touches of engraving, in black on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/plate: 27.5 × 19.7 cm (10 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 20.2 cm (11 × 8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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Prince Rupert’s Standard Bearer , also known as Young David or Great Lansquenet , is one of his first dated mezzotints, created the same year Rupert engraved his Great Executioner . Standard Bearer demonstrates the pitfalls of reproducing Old Masters instead of newer paintings with clear authorship: most were attributed incorrectly, including this former “Giorgione.” Likewise, Valentine Green fancifully reproduced a Rembrandt self-portrait as an image of Rupert himself in 1775; Green’s skill nonetheless convinced Charles Theodore, current Prince and Count Palatinate, to appoint him his official mezzotint engraver.
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