Woodcut portrait of Vesalius attributed to Tobias Stimmer (1539-84). Matted. 13x9. cm

Posthumous portrait of Vesalius attributed to celebrated Swiss artist Tobias Stimmer, or, alternatively, to Stimmer's brother J. Christoph Stimmer or to Stimmer's pupil Christoph Maurer. Mounted and matted. 13 x 9cm. Fine apart from faint show-through from ms. on verso. With black letter caption reading "Andreas Vesalius/Medicus und Kais. Carls des fünfften Leibartz. m. 1564." This version of the portrait with German caption was published in Nikolaus Reusner's "Contrafacturbuch" (1587), the German version of his "Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium" (1587). See Spielmann, "Iconography of Andreas Vesalius," pp. 148-51.