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Frans Snyders, from "The Iconography"

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Frans Snyders, from "The Iconography"

Anthony van Dyck | Frans Snyders

early 17th century

Medium

Etching; first state

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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Anthony van Dyck

1599–1641 • Spanish Netherlands

Born the seventh of twelve children to a wealthy silk merchant in Belgium, Anthony van Dyck began to paint at an early age. By the age of nineteen, he had become a teacher in Antwerp. Soon afterward, he collaborated and trained with the famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. He studied and worked in Venice and Paris. Van Dyck was famed as a portrait painter in France and England, creating portraits for Charles I and Louis XIV. Comment on works: Portraits; Religious; History.

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