A Man Riding a Horse
Anthony van Dyck
ca. 1630
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (25.7 x 22.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Bieber, 1949
Accession Number
49.145.1
Tags
MenHorses
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...