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Sight (Visus), Cornelis Cort, after Frans Floris

Cornelis Cort, Frans Floris

Sight (Visus)

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Cornelis Cort
nachFrans Floris

Sight (Visus), 1561

From the Series „The five Senses“

Platte: 204 x 267 mm

Inventory Number: 50090

Object Number: 50090 D

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

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Title: Sight (Visus)
From the Series „The five Senses“

Engraver

Cornelis Cort

Inventor

afterFrans Floris

Production Place

Antwerp

Period Produced

16th century

Object Type

art print

Material

handmade paper

Technique

copperplate engraving

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Beschriftet in der Platte u. l.: franciscus floris inuentor .h. cock excudebat; neben dem Kopf der Personifikation: VISVS; unter der Darstellung, in der Platte: SENSORIVM VISUS EXTERIVS QVIDEM SVNT OCVLI, INTERIVS VERO DVO NERVI A CEREBRO PERTINGENTES AD OCULOS

Captions Added Later: Unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer; unten links Stempel "Brönner's Vermächtnis" (Lugt 307)

Watermark: Mittig rechts Blütenstand mit Stängel

Work Catalogues: NHD (Floris) 115 I/III
NHD (Cort) 204 I/II

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19.06.2026