Reproductie van een portret van Willem van Oranje

This engraving shows the Prince of Orange in a three-quarter pose within an oval border, holding a commander's baton and wearing detailed contemporary armor. His coat of arms, bearing the motto 'JE MAINTIENDRAY' (I will maintain), is positioned to the left of his chest. This work is a late 19th-century reproduction of a 1581 engraving designed by Hendrick Goltzius.

William the Silent was the primary leader of the Dutch Revolt, a conflict that secured the intellectual and religious pluralism necessary for the flourishing of the Haarlem Mannerists and Northern Neoplatonism. The artist Hendrick Goltzius was a central figure in Western esoteric art, often embedding complex Hermetic and alchemical allegories into his print cycles.