page_title: Gaspar Bouttats
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Gaspar Bouttats / Work
caption_attribution_description: Assassination of Henry IV (Henry IV, King of France; François Ravaillac), by Gaspar Bouttats, given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1931. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have a known author, but have been manually examined for strong evidence that the author was dead before 1939, such as approximate death dates, birth dates, floruit dates, and publication dates.
context_page_description: Gaspar Bouttats the Elder or Gaspard Bouttats the Elder was a Flemish printmaker and engraver of the Baroque period.
context_section_description: He engraved chiefly for the booksellers, and also made some plates after different masters. They are principally etched, and some finished with the burin. The following works are by him:
  Frontispiece for the Psalms of St. Augustine; Gaspar Boutats fec.
  The Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
  The Assassination of Henry IV.
  The Decollation of Count Nadasti, Count Corini, and Marquis Francipani.
  A Sutler's Tent; after Philips Wouwerman.
  He often worked after designs by the marine and topographical artist Jan Peeters I.  He etched the plates for a folio volume of city views of Jerusalem and the surrounding areas entitled 'Views of Jerusalem, and the surrounding Country;' after the designs Jan Peeters.  In 1674 he engraved the Thooneel der Steden ende Sterckten van t'Vereenight Nederlandt met d'aengrensende Plaetsen soo in Brabandt Vlaenderen als anden Rhijn en elders verovert door de Waepenen der Groot-moghende Heeren Staeten onder het gheley vande seer Edele Hooghghebore Princen va Oranien (Scene of the Cities and the Forts of the United Netherlands with the Neighboring Places like Brabant, Flanders and on the Rhine and Conquered Elsewhere through the Weapons of the Great and Mighty Sovereign States under the Leadership of the Very Noble Prince of Orange).  This last work offered city views of the major cities and forts in the Dutch Republic, the Southern Netherlands and along the Rhine after drawings by Jan Peeters.
caption: The Assassination of Henry IV, King of France
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