Pompe Funebre du Tres Illustre Chef Messire Iean-Baptiste de Tassis
Serpentine funeral procession for Jean-Baptiste de Tassis in Cologne, the coffin is carried from the archbishop's palace (left) to the monastery. Sequence of numbers 1-22 within the composition, corresponding legend below the picture field.
Inscription: Pompe Funebre du Tres Illustre Chef Messire JEAN-BAPTISTE DE TASSIS tue au Seige de la Ville de Bonnen en l'an MDLXXXVIII... / N: van der Horst delin. / W: Hollar fecit. 1645 / NB Entre les pages 140 et 141.
Verso: [Stamped below right:] Collector's stamp incomplete impression, probably stamp of the Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess Collection, Nuremberg (in Lugt: L.2749) [ below in pencil:] N00 [below] 1. 380 [in pencil on separate label above left:] 2 [ next to it:] 44) [next to it:] 5.- [in pencil below left:] P 531
[...]: Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess Collection, Nuremberg (L.2749)
[...] - 1938: probably stock Hugo Helbing, Munich (unclear circumstances of acquisition).
12.05.1938: Acquired by purchase from Hugo Helbing, Munich.
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