Study Head of an Old Man with a White Beard

Study Head of an Old Man with a White Beard

Study Head of an Old Man with a White Beard

Artist:Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
Date:ca. 1617–20
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:26 x 20 1/4 in. (66 x 51.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Egleston Fund, 1922

Rubens’s practice of using real people as models for figures in his religious and mythological scenes was followed closely in Antwerp by his younger colleagues Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck. The present picture was once attributed to Rubens, but its comparatively soft forms and textured surfaces are typical of the young Van Dyck and contrast with Rubens’s emphatic modeling and incisive draftsmanship.
Provenance
[Nikolaus Steinmeyer, Cologne, until about 1900; sold to Martius]; Götz Martius, Kiel (about 1900–about 1920); ?[Van Diemen & Co., Berlin, 1922]; [Paul Bottenwieser, Berlin, 1922; sold to MMA]

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