The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Sir Anthony van Dyck
c. 1618
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 18.2 x 28.1 cm (7 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection
Accession Number
1993.51.7
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...