The bust of Seneca, in a niche

An engraved bust of a bearded, elderly man with tousled hair and a deeply lined face, his muscular bare chest and draped cloth shown within a shadowed arched niche. Fine hatching models the flesh and stone, and a Latin inscription runs along the lower edge beneath the bust.

Look closer: The printed Latin inscription along the bottom edge names the sitter and the artists in small letters.

Artist

Lucas Vorsterman I

Date

ca. 1620

Medium

Etching and engraving; second state of two

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1261 × 1697 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985