Skip to main content

Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi: PD.13-1952

An image of Drawing

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik

Entities

Categories

Description

Third son of Jean-Charles Affaytadi; he was Seigneur de Braderich from 1588 and died in 1598

Notes

History note: ?Sir Charles Robinson; Sir Francis Cook; Sir Herbert Cook

Legal notes

From the Spencer George Perceval Fund.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1952) by Cook, Francis

Dating

Production date: AD 1584

School or Style

Dutch

Materials used in production

Ground (material)
Metal points

Components of the work

Support composed of vellum (skin)
Image Size Diameter 72 mm
Sheet Size Height 92 mm Width 72 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Metal point on yellow-prepared ground, on vellum

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: HGoltzius fecit
  • Location: Centre right
  • Method of creation: Metal point
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: Ao. 1584
  • Location: Centre right
  • Method of creation: Metal point
  • Type: Date
  • Text: Fortune Fort Une
  • Location: Around the upper part of the circle
  • Method of creation: Metal point
  • Text: poutrayt de / mayster Sesar / Affaytadi sy de / Bradric
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Ink
  • Text: Pourtrait de Monsieur Caesar Affaytadi S / de Bradric, fils de Jean Charle (s) / frere de Cosmo, Oncle de Dam (e) / Agnes Agnes Affaytadi / douari (ère) / Sr de Courteville
  • Location: Verso, below
  • Method of creation: Ink

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.13-1952
Primary reference Number: 4668
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 16 July 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/4668 Accessed: 2024-04-19 00:43:24

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/4668 |title=Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-19 00:43:24|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-4668

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp34/PD_13_1952.jpg"
        alt="Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Portrait of Caesar Affaytadi</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

More objects and works of art you might like

Head

Accession Number: GR.3.1961

Sir Julius Caesar

Accession Number: P.2204-R

As

Accession Number: CM.545-1910

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

You might be interested in this...

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...