# Queen Henrietta Maria

**Anthony van Dyck** (Flemish, 1599–1641)  
1636  
Oil on canvas  
41 5/8 × 33 1/4 in. (105.7 × 84.5 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.141.10. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438112).

## About this work

Anthony van Dyck painted this in 1636, aged 37. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Anthony van Dyck](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/anthony-van-dyck)

Flemish, 1599–1641; born in Antwerp; died in London

Van Dyck was the leading assistant in Rubens’s Antwerp studio before spending six years in Italy, chiefly in Genoa, where he painted the local aristocracy in elegant full-lengths. In 1632 he became principal painter to Charles I of England, and his portraits of the king, Queen Henrietta Maria and their court fixed the image of Caroline England and set the pattern for British portraiture for more than a century. He also conceived the Iconography, a series of etched portraits of notable contemporaries.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- The artist was 37
- Real size: about 42 × 33 in (106 × 85 cm). The 24 × 36 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: Queens, Portraits, Women, Crowns
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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