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Study Head of a Young Woman

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Study Head of a Young Woman

Anthony van Dyck

ca. 1618–20

Medium

Oil on paper, laid down on wood

Tags

Portraits Women

Dimensions

22 1/4 x 16 3/8 in. (56.5 x 41.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Ralph J. Hines, 1957

Classification

Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper

Department

European Paintings

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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