2008.25.16: Jan de Wael
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.25.16
- People
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Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
- Title
- Jan de Wael
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Iconography
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1626-1633
- Culture
- Flemish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/324160
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
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platemark: 25.2 x 17.9 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
framed: 24.4 x 15.7 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: bird in a wreath (M-H 2520256; 1640-45)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Chambers Hall (Lugt 551). Herman Weber (Lugt 1383). Alfred Morrison (Lugt 151). Edwin A. Seasongood (Lugt 907a), sold [through his sale, Parke Bernet, New York, November 5-6, 1951, lot 283]. [Sotheby's Parke Bernet New York, May 16, 1990, lot 46]. [R. M. Light & Co., Boston], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Klein, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- M.-H. 17; Amsterdam/Antwerp 20
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Walter C. Klein, Class of 1939
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.25.16
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
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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.
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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