The Edge of a Wood

The Edge of a Wood by Sir Anthony van Dyck

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall (approximate): 19.9 x 26 cm (7 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.) support: 30 x 37 cm (11 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Syma Busiel Fund

Accession Number

1970.14.1

About the Artist

Sir Anthony van Dyck · 1599present

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...

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