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
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...