Anthony van Dyck
Flemish, 1599-1641
Philippe Le Roy
INV-6003
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish, 1599-16411630/40
Philippe Le Roy
Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599-1641 →etchingprint
Date
1630/40
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 24.2 × 15.5 cm (9 9/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 25.4 × 16.4 cm (10 × 6 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Anthony van Dyck produced stand-alone portraits of famous men as well as those in his Iconography; all of them went through multiple states of engraving. The first state, included only the sitter’s head. Another artist likely added the body and framing elements to this fourth state. The final state would include text describing the sitter and his coat of arms. Baron Philippe Le Roy was a Flemish diplomat who would help end the Thirty Years’ War in 1648; Van Dyck had already painted his portrait in 1630 (Wallace Collection, London).
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