Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677)
Portrait of Anthony van Dyck
1660-1675

Artist: Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677) after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Title: Portrait of Anthony van Dyck
Date: 1660-1675
School: Dutch, Dutch 17^th-century
Medium: mezzotint
Dimensions: 225 x 177mm (plate)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: lettered in lower margin left to right <<A. van Dyck P. ANTOINE VAN DYCK, Peintre très-celébre. W Waillant fecit>>
Condition: fine impression of the fourth state, thread margins
Description: Portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck, half-length, head turned to his left with left hand to his chest.
Reference: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 1450-1700, Vaillant 507. Vaillant repeated the composition on a slightly smaller scale. For this repetition see the impression once owned by Pierre Mariette II in the British Museum.
Provenance: Antiquarius, Rome