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- Museum number
- R,1a.258
- Title
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Object: Erycius Puteanus
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Series: Icones Principum Virorum
- Description
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Portrait of Erycius Puteanus, half-length in front of a swagged curtain to left, book shelves to right; with long hair, moustache and beard, his right hand resting on an opening book in front; third state with title and publisher's address; after Anthony van Dyck
Engraving
- Production date
- 1630-1645
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 171 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression of this state see 1888,0612.41, for impressions of later states see R,1a.257; 1898,0215.24; 1863,0509.846; and 1935,1213.1.48. For comment on Van Dyck's Iconography see R,1b.47.
The copper-plate is kept in the Chalcographie, Musée du Louvre, inv.no.2388. The portrait is based on Van Dyck's chalk and brush drawing, British Museum, London, see 1895,0915.1069 (Vey 255). See also Van Dyck's half-length painted portrait, in 2004 in the collection of Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, see S. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, 'Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings', Yale & London, 2004, cat.no.III.120.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- for the argument that this probably comes from Cracherode, see R,1a.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- R,1a.258