Portret van Johannes Schöner

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verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

**Portrait of Johannes Schö** Step into the world of Renaissance scholarship with this delicate engraving by Robert Boissard, between 1597 and1599. Measuring just 137 mm high by 107 mm wide, it captures the likeness of Johannes Schöner a prominent 16th-century German astronomer mathematician, and instrument maker. Schöner (1477–1547) was a key figure in the scientific revolution, renowned for crafting early globes and maps that influenced later thinkers like Nicolaus Copernicus. This posthumous portrait, likely part of a series honoring intellectuals, preserves his legacy in print form. Eng...

About the Artist

Robert Boissard · 1586–1691

Robert Boissard (c. 1570–after 1630) was a French engraver and draughtsman whose work exemplifies the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque printmaking in France. Born around 1570 in Valence, Boissard belonged to an artistic family and was a relative of the distinguished scholar and artist Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), whose monumental biographical and archaeological publications ...