Charles I
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 4 1/8 in. (14.7 × 10.4 cm) cut within platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.85
Tags
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck|Charles I, King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland|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...