Engraved portrait of Jacques Callot by Arnout Loemans after Michel Lasne, from Cornelis de Bie’s Het Gulden Cabinet / Antwerp, 1661.

Artist: Arnout [Aernout] Loemans (Flemish, 1600–after 1656)
After: Michel Lasne (French, 1590–1667)
Publisher/Printer: Jan Meyssens (Flemish, 1612–1670)
Author of volume: Cornelis de Bie (Flemish, 1627–1715)
Date: 1661 (first edition)
Medium: Burin engraving on laid paper; sheet 162 × 114 mm; image 144 × 109 mm
Sitter: Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635)

Bust-length portrait of Jacques Callot, turned three-quarters to the right with his face directed toward the viewer. He wears a pleated ruff and a buttoned doublet with slashed sleeves; his right hand rests on his waist, and a medal suspended from a chain is visible on his chest. Drapery background at right.

The lower margin contains a French inscription: 113 IACQ CALLOT / Gentilhome lorainois, il fut né en la ville de Nanci, en l’an 1594. de son commencement estoit graveur, mais voyant qu’il ne scauroit faire promptement cette science, il s’adonnoit à travailler à l’eau forte, en quelle il s’a rendu si extreme qu’il est un merveille de le voir, on cognoit son grand esprit par ses œuvres, comme la grande marché de Florence, les miseres de la guerre, et quantité des autres. Il mourut en la ville de sa naissance, l’an 1635, le 27me de mars. M. Lasne delin. A. Loemans sculpsit. I. Meyssens excudit.

The portrait derives from a design by Michel Lasne, reinterpreted by Arnout Loemans, and was issued as part of the engraved portrait series illustrating Cornelis de Bie’s Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const (Antwerp: Jan Meyssens, 1661).

👉 In my copy of Het Gulden Cabinet — the 1662 edition printed by Juliane van Monfort [LIB-2677.2021] — the portrait appears opposite p. 522, which contains a Dutch poem in praise of Callot.