Antique Master Print-JACQUES-DU-BROEUCQ-PORTRAIT-Pontius-Van Dyck-ca. 1630–1645

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 19.4 x 26.9 cm (7.64 x 10.59 inch). Image size: 17.2 x 23 cm. (6.77 x 9.06 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Top remargined. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JACQUES DU BRŒUCQ, VAN DYCK, PAUL PONTIUS, PORTRAIT ENGRAVING, ARCHITECT, HAINAUT, FLEMISH PRINT, ICONOGRAPHIE | PCO-E31-01

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From Van Dyck’s Iconographie portrait series; engraved by Paul Pontius after a drawing by Van Dyck.

State: Early impression.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch & Flemish; UMONS Bibliothèque centrale, cote E 2614.

Biography engraver: Paul Pontius (1603–1658) was a Flemish engraver from Antwerp and one of the foremost reproductive printmakers of the 17th century. A collaborator of Rubens and Van Dyck, he became renowned for his technically brilliant burin engravings, particularly the portraits after Van Dyck’s Iconographie.

Biography artist: Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was a Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman, celebrated as one of Europe’s greatest portraitists. After training with Rubens, he became court painter to Charles I of England. His portrait prints and paintings profoundly influenced European aristocratic portraiture.