Mary Boyle, Countess of Warwick

Paulus Pontius after Sir Anthony van Dyck

Associated Names
Paulus Pontius

Artist, Flemish, 1603 - 1658

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Artist After, Flemish, 1599 - 1641

The image is an engraved portrait of a woman named Elisabeth Comitissa Warwyck. The portrait shows an upper-body view of the woman with her head slightly turned to her left. She has a calm expression with thin eyebrows and slightly parted lips. Her long, wavy hair falls over her shoulders. She is wearing an elegant dress with a broad neckline and a pearl necklace. The portrait is set within an oval medallion in a larger rectangular frame with an intricate decorative pattern. The background of the engraving includes artwork text and the artist's name.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.4 × 13 cm (7 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.14.1210

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 506, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Anthony Van Dyck, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 506, state ii/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65364176

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