print
- Museum number
- 1863,0725.747
- Title
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Object: Maria Ruten
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Series: Icones Principum Virorum
- Description
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Portrait of Mary Ruthven, wife of Van Dyck, half-length turned slightly to right but looking towards the viewer, wearing a low cut dress fastened by jewelled clasps at the front, with large scalloped-hemmed sleeves, her left hand holding a rosary around her right wrist, with a cross dangling over the fourth finger of her left hand at the level of her abdomen; first, lettered state with the title and production details; after Anthony van Dyck
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1645-1655
- Dimensions
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Height: 241 millimetres
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Width: 188 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a later state see P,3.353. For comment on Van Dyck's Iconography see R,1b.47.
The whereabouts of the copperplate are unknown. The portrait is based on Van Dyck's painting in the Prado, Madrid, inv.no.1495, see S. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, 'Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings', Yale & London, 2004, cat.no.IV.7.
See also the engraving by Schelte à Bolswert; R,1b.61 (New Hollstein 101).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1863,0725.747