Frans Snyders, from "The Iconography"
early 17th century
Medium
Etching; first state
Dimensions
plate: 9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in. (24.1 x 15.5 cm) sheet: 15 7/8 x 10 13/16 in. (40.3 x 27.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940
Accession Number
40.63.1
Tags
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck|Frans Snyders · 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...