Sir Anthony van Dyck

(Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London)
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, c. 1630, etching and drypoint, on fine laid paper with watermark "Nine-pointe cap and bells with three balls", from the series "Icones Principum Virorum", signed Ant. van Dyck fecit aqua forti in the plate, 24,5 x 15,8 cm, with broad margins along platemarks, Hollstein 5 II (of IV), prior to the monogram G. H. and the deleted etching errors, mounted, framed, (Sch)
Provenance:
Private collection, South Germany

After a portrait in Parma formerly attributed to Hans Holbein. A very excellent impression with numerous wiping marks and a fine plate tone. Browned and somewhat stained in the margins outside the image, otherwise in very good condition.