Anthony van Dyck

1632

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Sir Anthony van Dyck, Jacques Neeffs, and others

Anthony van Dyck

1632

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 315 × 245 mm. (12 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.) Plate: 241 × 157 mm. (9 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1946.112.15718

Etching by van Dyck of the head (a self-portrait) with the rest of the image engraved by Jacques Neefs representing a sculptural bust on a pedestal flanked by busts of Mercury and Minerva.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: in image, center on base of bust, in plate "ANT. VAN DYCK. Ant van Dyck fecit aqua forti"; in image, lower center on pedestal, in plate "ICONES / PRINCIPVM / VIRORVM DOCTORVM / PICTORVM CHALCOGRAPHORVM / STATVARIORVM NEC NON AMATORVM / PICTORIÆ ARTIS NVMERO CENTVM / AB / ANTONIO VAN DYCK / PICTORE AD VIVVM EXPRESSÆ / EIVSQ: SVMPTIBVS ÆRI INCISÆ."; in image, lower center, in plate "ANTVERPIÆ / Gillis Hendricx excudit"; in image, lower left, in plate "Iac. Neefs Sculpsit."; above image, center, in graphite "No 1."; below image, lower left, in graphtie indecipherable; below image, lower left, in graphite "[indecipherable] Cat"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "9992" Verso: lower center in graphite "3rd state [indecipherable] p 267 [indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: crowned shield