Self-portrait (van Dyck, Vienna) explained

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Artist:	Anthony van Dyck
Year:	1613–1614
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	25.8
Width Metric:	19.4
Museum:	Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Self-portrait of 1613–1614 is the first surviving self-portrait by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, showing him aged about fifteen. At that date he was still working for Hendrick van Balen but was about to join Peter Paul Rubens's studio.^[1] Self-portraiture was a typical artform in the Northern Renaissance and had already been used by Rubens and Jan van Eyck.

See also

• List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck

Bibliography

• Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi, 1976.
• Didier Bodart, Van Dyck, Prato, Giunti, 1997.
• Justus Müller Hofstede, Van Dyck, Milan, Rizzoli/Skira, 2004.
• Stefano Zuffi, Il Barocco, Verona, Mondadori, 2004.
• Marco Horak, Van Dyck tra i grandi ritrattisti nelle raccolte piacentine, in "Panorama Musei", anno XVI, no. 2, August 2011

Notes and References

1. [Christopher Brown (museum director)|Christopher Brown]