Het Gulden Cabinet

Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-const

Title page of the Gulden Cabinet[1]
Author	Cornelis de Bie
Language	Dutch
Subject	Artist biographies
Publisher	Joannes Meyssens (1662)
Publication date	1662
Publication place	Habsburg Netherlands

Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const or The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the Habsburg Netherlands. The work is a very important source of information on the artists it describes. It formed the principal source of information for later art historians such as Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman. It was published in 1662, although the work also mentions 1661 as date of publication.