Susanna Fourment and Her Daughter
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 172 × 117 cm, 106 lb. (67 11/16 × 46 1/16 in., 48.081 kg) framed: 204.47 × 149.86 × 12.7 cm (80 1/2 × 59 × 5 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1937.1.48
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...