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Sir Anthony van Dyck (artist) Flemish, 1599 - 1641 Lady with a Fan, c. 1628 oil on canvas overall: 109.7 x 97 cm (43 3/16 x 38 3/16 in.) framed: 151.5 x 134.6 x 16.5 cm (59 5/8 x 53 x 6 1/2 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1957.14.1 On View |
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Lady with a Fan depicts the daughter of a Genoese admiral and the wife of Spain's ambassador to Genoa. Her marriage, which took place in Madrid in 1628, may have been the occasion for this portrait. Both her Italian father and her Spanish husband served official duties in the Netherlands, and her costume with its slashed sleeves is northern European in style. With his brilliant use of neutral tones in white, gray, and black, Van Dyck minimized the sitter's fleshy corpulence.
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