CIRCLE OF ANTHONY VAN DYCK (FLEMISH, 1599-1641)

Portrait of a friar
oil on canvas
43 x 31cm

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 22nd April 1998, lot 25

Footnote
This head study is a copy after the head of St Francis in Van Dyck's Crucifixion in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Dendermonde.
This work is filed in the RKD.

The present work will be on view at Cromwell Place on 26th & 27th September
Condition ReportThe canvas has been relined. There are traces of craquelure throughout, stable - otherwise the paint surface is sound. Ultraviolet reveals flecks of infilling to craquelure to the sitter's cheek and forehead, traces of retouching to his robe, lower right and a few further spots to the background. Held in a later wooden frame in fair condition.