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Self-portrait by Adriaen van de Venne, nearly half-length to right, looking to front, his right hand resting on a paper over a parapet, his right hand lifted; wearing a cloak and white collar over dark doublet; bust with laurel wreath and open illustrated book in front of another sculpture on a table behind at right, curtain above, church seen through the window,
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Title: Adriaen van Venne
Series/Portfolio:
Image de divers hommes: The true effigies of the most eminent Painters (1649)
Etcher:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Artist:
After Adriaen van de Venne (Dutch, Delft 1589–1662 The Hague)
Publisher:
Johannes Meyssens (Flemish, Brussels 1612–1670 Antwerp)
Sitter:
Adriaen van de Venne (Dutch, Delft 1589–1662 The Hague)
Date: 1649
Medium: Etching; second state of five
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 1/2 in. (16.4 × 11.4 cm) cut outside the borderlines and just within the platemark
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number: 20.81.3.228
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