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Notice the soft shading Van Dyck added beside Snyders’s head at the right, the only background on the plate.
Frans Snyders led the Flemish painters of grand still lifes and often supplied the fruit and animals in Rubens’s pictures. Van Dyck shows him with a level gaze, his beard and lace collar etched in fine lines, and barely suggests the body below. The sheet belongs to the Iconography, Van Dyck’s series of portraits of artists and other notable people.
Etching in black on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 24.3 × 15.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Frans Snyders
- Artist
- Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641
- Date
- 1630/33
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 24.3 × 15.5 cm (9 5/8 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 25.8 × 16.9 cm (10 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.