Jan Brueghel the Elder

1630 - 1641. Etching on paper.
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Portrait to the left, almost frontal, of the painter Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Engraving in etching focuses attention on the head and his right hand that picks up his cloak. The rest of the body silhouetted. The background hatching was added later. It is an inverted copy of the canvas at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich attributed to van Dyck. The print is part of the series Iconographie ou vies des hommes illustres du XVII siècle.

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Iconografía de van Dyck

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Inventory number: G000197
Authors: Anthony van Dyck -Engraver, Painter-; París Chalcographie Nationale
Title: Jan Brueghel the Elder
Date: 1630 - 1641
Technique: Etching
Support: Paper
Dimension: Width of the plate mark: 155 mm; Height: 450 mm; Width: 310 mm; Height of the plate mark: 245 mm
Series: Iconografía de van Dyck

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Vega, Jesusa, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de estampas, Museo del Prado. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1992, pp. 340, 1738.

The new Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts: 1450-1700, Sound & Vision Publishers,, Rotterdam, 1994-, pp. Anthony van Dyck, part I, p. 19, 3-VI.