Lucas Vorsterman
1630/45
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.2 × 15.2 cm (8 3/4 × 6 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 15.6 cm (9 11/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 15.9 cm (9 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41640
Art Historical Context
This exquisite etching, *Lucas Vorsterman*, by the renowned Flemish Baroque master Anthony van Dyck around 1630–45, captures the likeness of Lucas Vorsterman, a skilled engraver and frequent collaborator. Van Dyck, celebrated for his elegant portraits of nobility and artists, produced this work during his prolific Antwerp and early English periods, when he was elevating printmaking to fine art. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's and Drawings Department, it exemplifies van Dyck's *Iconography* series, a collection of etched and engraved portraits honoring contemporaries. Rendered in blac...
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...