Rubens and van Dyck, a Double Portrait

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.3 x 45.2 cm (13 7/8 x 17 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 430, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2008.91.5

Artists / Makers

Paulus Pontius (artist) Flemish, 1603 - 1658

Sir Anthony van Dyck (artist after) Flemish, 1599 - 1641

Erasmus Quellinus II (artist after) Flemish, 1607 - 1678

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left: PET. PAVL RVBENS EQVES PICTOR ANTWERPIENS; upper right: ANTONIVS VAN DYCK PICTOR ANTVERP. ; lower center: Ecce RVBENS... / ... pavide dubitastis amantes.; lower elft: Ant. van Dijck facies pinxit; lower center: Eras. Quellinus delin.; lower right: Paulus Ponius facies sculp.

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam, no. 123 ii/iii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Anthony van Dyck, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 430, state ii/iii.