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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.25.4
People
Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
Title
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Iconography
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1626-1633
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/324148

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
platemark: 24.8 x 15.9 cm (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
framed: 57.79 x 46.99 x 2.54 cm (22 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin in graphite pencil: Erasmus

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin (Lugt 2785). Harris G. Whittemore, Naugatuck, Connecticut (Lugt 1284a). Richard Zinser, Forest Hills, New York. [R. M. Light & Co., Boston] sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Klein, New York, April 1998, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/v
Standard Reference Number
M.-H. 5; Amsterdam/Antwerp 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Walter C. Klein, Class of 1939
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.25.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
The Iconography is a collection of portrait prints made after drawings and paintings by van Dyck. Eighteen were etched by the artist himself, although the majority are engravings made by a variety of printmakers. This compilation of portraits of princes, politicians, soldiers, statesmen, scholars, art connoisseurs and most importantly artists, a survey of the most distinguished men and women of his time, went through many editions. The edition published by Martinus van den Enden during van Dyck's lifetime consisted of eighty portraits. Van Dyck prepared these prints by making oil sketches and drawings in black chalk, sometimes washed with brown ink.

Many of these eighteen etched portraits by van Dyck are rare first state impressions, including the artist's Self-Portrait. The majority of the other eighteen are depictions of artists as well, including Jan and Pieter Brueghel, Lucas Vorsterman and Paulus Pontius-important reproductive engravers of Rubens's work, and Cornelis Anthoniszoon.

Publication History

  • Charles Noble, Gregory Rubinstein, and Christian Tico Seifert, Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House, exh. cat., National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, 2023), p. 38, repr. as fig. 25

Exhibition History

  • Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000

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