# A Genoese Lady with Her Child, in Flanders

Anthony van Dyck painted this in about 1623–25, aged about 24. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Prior to the 1600s, large, full-length portraits of wealthy clients usually emphasized the trappings of status above any other qualities. The accuracy of the likeness and vivacity of the person remained subordinate to an easily readable sense of the sitter’s power and position in society.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1623–25
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 266.5 x 184 x 12 cm (104 15/16 x 72 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 217.8 x 146 cm (85 3/4 x 57 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.392
- 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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