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Compare the finely worked head, ruff and hands with the coat drawn only in outline and the dark shaded block at the upper right.
The sitter, Jan Brueghel the Elder, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted flowers and landscapes with small figures, and collaborated with Rubens. Van Dyck etched his head, ruff and hands in close detail but left the coat in bare outline. The sheet, in etching and engraving, belongs to Van Dyck’s portrait series known as the Iconography.
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper · Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 24.3 × 15.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Jan Brueghel the Elder
- Artist
- Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641
- Date
- 1630/33
- Medium
- Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 24.3 × 15.1 cm (9 5/8 × 6 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.