ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of a woman (c. 1634-35) Oil on canvas (208 x 118 cm) Windsor Castle, Royal Collection Born in Antwerp, Anton van Dyck was a pupil of Rubens and as such he distinguished himself very early. An early visit to London in 1620-21 during the reign of James I was short-lived …
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A Mother and her Daughter
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of Susanna Fourment and her Daughter Clara (1620-22) Oil on canvas 173 x 117 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The sitters have been identified with complete certainty. Susanna Fourment (1599-1628) and her daughter belonged to …
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1616/18) Oil on canvas 207 x 137 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This moving painting highlights the extraordinary skill and confidence of the young van Dyck, who painted this brilliant Lamentation at the …
Head of a Woman
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Head of a Woman (1618-20) Oil on paper, mounted on panel 49 x 46 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum/Museum of Art History, Vienna To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This oil sketch is akin to the studies from live male models that van Dyck transformed by …
Father and Son
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of a man and a boy (1618-20) Oil on panel 115 x 82 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to the excellent monography about Anton van Dyck by the American art historian Alfred Moir …
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