89. Joos van Winghe - Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

Etching
Signed ‘Hh ex.’ by Hendrick Hondius, attributed to Simon Frisius
20.1 x 11.9 cm

Transcription of Inscription:
IODOCUS WINGIUS, BRUXELL. PICTOR
Wingius hic multum pingebat corpora viva :
Venae, membra, artus, omnia consipicua.
Cujus laudatur, quae expressa est, Belgica nuda :
Quâ ostendit Patriae tristia fata suae.

Translation of Inscription:
Joos van Winghe of Brussels, painter
This van Winghe often painted living bodies – veins, limbs, joints, everything was remarkable. His Belgian nude, which has been printed,¹ is praised. With her he showed the sad fate of his fatherland.

Orenstein 1996, Frisius no. 159; Hollstein 2008 no. 179
Karel Van Mander’s biography of Joos van Winghe
Grove Art Online biography

Footnotes:

I am not certain this is what the author means by “expressa”. It could also simply mean “portrayed”, “painted”. Compare note for the text on 61. Jacob Binck.

Artist Tags: 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), Brussels, Explicitly described as painters in the verse, Nation/nationality: Belgica/Belgium/Belgian, Only in the Hondius Pictorum, Pictor, Prints in Part Two and Third person.