# Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography", in Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck made this in about 1640, aged about 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Van Dyck etched only his own head on this plate, and in this first state the face seems to float on the bare paper, set down in quick, flickering lines.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1640
- Medium: Etching; first state of seven
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (24.1 × 15.6 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 50.583.4
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Anthony van Dyck](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/anthony-van-dyck), Flemish, 1599–1641

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.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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