Pieter de Jode the Younger

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Pieter de Jode the Younger, engraved by himself after Thomas Willeboirts
Leopold Wilhelm of Austria , engraving by Pieter de Jode the Younger

Pieter de Jode the Younger (born November 22, 1604 or 1606 in Antwerp , † after 1674 in England ) was a Flemish engraver .

Life

Pieter de Jode the Younger, son and pupil of Pieter de Jode the Elder , trained after the engravers of the Rubens School and worked in Paris around 1631 , where he engraved after Simon Vouet and other French painters . His best engravings are those after paintings by Peter Paul Rubens , Jacob Jordaens and Anthonis van Dyck , to whose iconography he contributed twelve portraits.

His main work is Rinaldo and Armida after van Dyck. In 1650 he published the portrait collection Theatrum principum , which his father had started .

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