Lucas and Cornelius van Wael
Medium
Etching; Fourth state of four (NH)
Dimensions
Plate: 11 3/4 × 9 in. (29.9 × 22.8 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 × 9 5/16 in. (30.7 × 23.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1480
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck|Wenceslaus Hollar|Johannes Meyssens|Lucas de Wael|Cornelis de Wael · 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...