print
- Museum number
- R,1a.272
- Description
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Portrait of Philippe Le Roy, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with moustache and pointed beard, wearing a cloak and lace collar
Etching
- Production date
- 1630-1640
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 157 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After the 1630 painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Wallace Collection, London, inv.no.P94; see S. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar, H. Vey, 'Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings', New Haven, 2004, cat.no.III.98.
The print is a pair to the portrait of Le Roy's wife, Marie de Raedt (New Hollstein 143). For the etching by Vorsterman and Pontius showing the same sitter, see also R,1a.274. For the engraved copy by an unknown printmaker, possibly Adriaen Lommelin, see R,1a.279 (New Hollstein 142).
- 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.272