Title Page from the "Iconography"
1645
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 × 15.1 cm (9 9/16 × 6 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 15.7 cm (9 11/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 42.5 × 27.9 cm (16 3/4 × 11 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
24255
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The painter Anthony van Dyck etched only the head of most of his portraits, leaving the background to other artists. Jacques Neeffs expanded this print with engraved lines, transforming Van Dyck’s abbreviated self-portrait into a sculptural bust atop a robust column. Finished posthumously, long after Van Dyck’s appointment as court painter to Charles I of England, the resulting print reinforces Van Dyck’s fame, serving as it does as the title page to his Iconography, a series of portraits of art...