Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen)
Medium
Etching; first state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 7 7/8 in. (26.5 × 20 cm) cut on and fractionally within the platemark at top
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.15
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About this artwork
This portrait etching depicts Bishop Jan van Malderen, created by the masterful Bohemian printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar in 1645 after a painting by Anthony van Dyck. The collaboration, though indirect, united two of the seventeenth century's greatest artists: Van Dyck, whose elegant portraiture defined aristocratic and ecclesiastical representation, and Hollar, whose etchings disseminated important images throughout Europe. Bishop van Malderen served as an important Catholic churchman during the t...
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck|Bishop Jan van Malderen|Wenceslaus Hollar · 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...