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Follow the etched lines from the bald head down to the hand resting on his chest, then find Van Dyck’s name in the Latin lines at the bottom.
Van Dyck worked on the Iconography, a set of 80 portraits of notable people and artists, in Antwerp after his return from Italy and before he left for England. This one shows the history painter Jan Snellinx, who lived from 1544 to 1638, drawn straight onto the copper with free, spontaneous lines; the Latin caption names the sitter and Van Dyck as the etcher. Van Dyck left the series unfinished, and other engravers later added ornament to complete the plates.
Etching in black on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 24.5 × 15.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Jan Snellinx
- Artist
- Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641
- Date
- 1630/33
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 24.5 × 15.5 cm (9 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 37.4 × 24.5 cm (14 3/4 × 9 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.