The image depicts a man in a half-body portrait. He is seated and facing slightly to the side but looking at the viewer. The man has a beard and mustache, short and wavy hair with a receding hairline. He is wearing a voluminous robe, holding a section of it in one hand, and wearing a ring on one finger. The background shows textured, architectural elements indoors.
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The image depicts a man in a half-body portrait. He is seated and facing slightly to the side but looking at the viewer. The man has a beard and mustache, short and wavy hair with a receding hairline. He is wearing a voluminous robe, holding a section of it in one hand, and wearing a ring on one finger. The background shows textured, architectural elements indoors.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Anton Triest

Pieter de Jode II after Sir Anthony van Dyck

Date
1632
Medium
etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 24.3 x 17.7 cm (9 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.) plate: 23.8 x 17.3 cm (9 3/8 x 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2011.139.126
Credit line
Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CG-E

Portfolio and series

Series
Iconography

Subjects and terms

  • Portrait
  • Man
Provenance

Dr. August Sträter [1810-1897], Aix-la-Chapelle (Lugt 787); Georg Rath [1828-1904], Budapest (Lugt 1206); Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Inscription

lower margin in plate: PERILL:VS ET RE.MVS DNVS D. ANTONIVS TRIEST EPISCOPUS GANDAVENSIS / TOPARCHA DOMIN. S.TI BAVONIS COMES EVERGHEMIENSIS ET REGIAE MA:TI / A CONSILIO STATUS ETC. / G.H.; lower left in plate: Ant. van Dyck pinxit/ Pet. de. Joden Scu[l]p.; lower right in plate: cum privilegio; upper left verso, pen and brown ink [faded]: 4 nr. 16; by later hand, lower margin verso, in blue pencil: 276; by later hand, lower center verso, in graphite: HW 246.; by later hand, lower right verso, in graphite: 333

Marks

stamp, verso lower left, in blue ink: CR [in escutcheon]; stamp, verso lower center, in black ink: Dr A.S. [in oval] [L. 787]

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