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Look at the steady gaze, the curled moustache and the lace collar, the only parts of the plate finished in this first state.
Van Dyck’s portrait etchings went through several states as more work was added to the plate. This impression is the first state, with the head alone; by the fourth state another hand had probably added the body and a frame, and the last state added an inscription about him and his coat of arms. The sitter, Baron Philippe Le Roy, served as a Flemish diplomat and later helped bring the Thirty Years’ War to an end in 1648; Van Dyck had painted him in 1630, in a portrait now in the Wallace Collection in London.
Etching, with stippling, in black on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 24.1 × 15.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Philippe Le Roy
- Artist
- Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641
- Date
- 1630/40
- Medium
- Etching, with stippling, in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 24.1 × 15.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 25.6 × 16.9 cm (10 1/8 × 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.