Portrait of a Man

Anthony van Dyck

ca. 1618 · Oil on wood · European Paintings

This impressive portrait, painted about 1618 when the artist was eighteen or nineteen years old, is very close in style to contemporary and slightly earlier portraits by Rubens, for whom Van Dyck was working at the time. In its insistence on volume and textures, the close attention to costume detail, and the passive pose and expression, the painting also adheres to an older Netherlandish tradition, as seen in portraits by Anthonis Mor (ca. 1516/19-ca. 1575/76).

Artist

Anthony van Dyck

Date

ca. 1618

Medium

Oil on wood

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889