A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son
Sir Anthony van Dyck
c. 1626
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 191.5 x 139.5 cm (75 3/8 x 54 15/16 in.) framed weight: 81.647 kg (180 lb.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.91
About the Artist
Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599–present
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most important portraitists in the history of European art. Born in Antwerp, he showed extraordinary precocious talent and entered the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens as a teenager, quickly becoming Rubens's most gifted assistant and an independent master in his own right by the age of eighteen. Van Dyck spent formative ye...