Anthony van Dyck
Lucas Emil Vorsterman
c. 1635
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 25 × 15.8 cm (9 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 20.3 cm (11 13/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51355
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lucas Emil Vorsterman · 1595–1675
Lucas Vorsterman the Elder, also known as Lucas Emil Vorsterman (1595–1675), was a preeminent Flemish Baroque engraver renowned for his reproductive prints after the era's leading painters. Born in Zaltbommel in the Dutch province of Gelderland to a family of artists, his early life remains sparsely documented beyond the fact that he began practicing engraving at the age of twelve. Around 1617–161...