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Justus Suttermans, from "The Iconography"
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Justus Suttermans, from "The Iconography"

Medium

Etching; fifth of five states

Dimensions

sheet: 10 3/16 x 6 5/8 in. (25.8 x 16.8 cm) plate: 10 1/16 x 6 9/16 in. (25.5 x 16.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Anthony van Dyck

1599–1641Spanish 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.