Charles I and Henrietta Maria
Medium
Etching; first state of three (NH , this impression cited)
Dimensions
sheet: 7 x 9 5/8 in. (17.8 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Nathan Chaikin, 1952
Accession Number
52.614.1a, b
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About this artwork
This etching by Bohemian printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar reproduces Anthony van Dyck's painted portraits of England's King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, documenting both royal imagery and 17th-century print production. Created in London in 1641, during the tense years before the English Civil War, this print shows the royal couple together in an etching that would later be cut to create separate portraits—presumably reflecting Queen Henrietta Maria's unpopularity. Hollar's etching derives fr...
About the Artist
Charles I, King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland|Henrietta Maria, Queen of England|Wenceslaus Hollar|Anthony van Dyck (Bohemian|British) · 1607 |1600 –1677 |1649
Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London|British, Dunfermline, Scotland 1600–1649 London