drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1069
- Description
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Portrait of Erycius Puteanus, study for a print; half-length to front, seated at a table with left hand turning the pages of a book, looking slightly to right, bookshelf behind at left and curtain to right, with a study for the left hand in the margin below
Black chalk, with brown wash, with lines indented for transfer
- Production date
- 1627-1632
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is a richly modelled chalk with pen and wash portrait study of Erycius Puteanus who was a Dutch historian, humanist and philologist. That the lines are indeted for transfer identifies it as a study for the portrait engraved by Pieter de Jode II in the Iconography (for an impression in the BM see R,1a.258). It was produced to be included in the Iconographie portrait series (for comment on which see R,1b.47). A painting was or the same composition was formerly in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (sold Sotheby's New York, 28 January 1999, lot no. 208). A newly discovered drawing of Willem Hondius for the same series recently sold at Christie's New York (1 Feb 2024, lot 83).
Lit: H. Vey, ‘Die Zeichnungens Anton von Dycks’, Brussels, 1962, no. 255; C. Brown, 'The Drawings of Anthony van Dyck', exhib.cat. The Pierpont Morgan Library (New York) and Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth), New York, 1991, no.56.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.93
1991 Feb-Apr, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Van Dyck, no. 56
1991 June-Aug, Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum, Van Dyck, no. 56
2008/9 Oct-Jan, Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Antoon van Dyck portraitiste européen
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1069
