Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck
On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons.
The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
I’m not always fond of Van Dyck’s more stylized poses, but here, in a reserved, classical portrait of a member of the Geonese aristocracy, Van Dyck earns his reputation as one of the great portrait painters.
Tasty eye candy! Love the attention to detail . . . but, oh my, how uncomfortable those fashions must have been to wear! ! !
Love the hands!
A total WOW (woman of wonder)! How many have fallen in love with her through out the ages? Definitely a painting to see when in DC.
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Definitely eye candy. Thanks, Charley!
Václav, aka Wenceslaus and Wenzel, Hollar, from Prague, produced an etching (one of a total of 2700) after Van Dijk’s selfportrait with giant sunflower. Van Dijk was a giant himself. Think of his ‘brown’, his beard and outfit.
http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/kallitypes/beyond-the-blues-vandyke-brown-printing
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-11.401
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Self-portrait_with_a_Sunflower_by_Anthony_van_Dyck.jpg
