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The Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga in Ecstasy
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The Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga in Ecstasy

Medium

Brush and brown ink; enlarged (probably by Pierre-Jean Mariette) below and at right with strips of ca. 7 mm and completed with brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

Tags

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 1/16 x 3 1/16 in. (10.3 x 7.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013

Classification

Drawings

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.