Jan Bruegel the Elder
probably 1626/1641
Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.5 x 15.5 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.) page size: 37.4 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.125.1.115
About the Artist
Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599–present
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most important portraitists in the history of European art. Born in Antwerp, he showed extraordinary precocious talent and entered the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens as a teenager, quickly becoming Rubens's most gifted assistant and an independent master in his own right by the age of eighteen. Van Dyck spent formative ye...