Woman Three-Quarter Length with Crossed Arms
Anthony van Dyck
18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, with traces of graphite, on blue wove paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
9.2 × 7.7 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85728
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...