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Antonio de Tassis, after Anthony van Dyck, from the Iconography
circa 1630-1640
17th century
35.9 cm x 26.4 cm (14 1/8 in. x 10 3/8 in.)
Jacob Neeffs
(Antwerp, 1610 - ca.1660, Antwerp)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Flemish
Medium and Support:
Engraving
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Simkowitz in memory of Amy Cecelia Simkowitz-Rogers, 1997
Accession Number:
1997.288
Admirer and collector of the arts, Tassis was appointed the Canon at the Cathedral of Antwerp after losing his left arm in battle. In Neeffs’s reproduction of Van Dyck’s painting, however, it appears that his right arm is missing as his left holds a book. This is the nature of reproductive printmaking. The engraver transfers to the plate exactly what he sees in the painting; making the final print a mirror image.