Beautiful folio size antique photogravure print from the picture by Peter Paul Rubens (click thumbnails above for larger size image).
Printed on heavyweight cream stock. Plate mark present. Reverse side is blank.
It's hard to appreciate the stunning detail and clarity of this print until you see it in person.
The Portrait of Baron Henri de Vicq, ambassador from the Low Countries to the court of France, is one of Rubens's masterly works. It exhibits the baron almost in full face, with close-cut mustache and beard, already gray. Otherwise in black, he wears about his neck the full-pleated ruff of the day. Behind him hangs a red curtain. The penetrating eye, the firm facial muscles, the full brow, the courtly air, all bespeak the diplomat, the man of the world. It is painted with a fullness of color, a limpidity of stroke, characteristic of this painter whose first strokes were also his last.
Title: Portrait of Baron de Vicq, Ambassador of the Netherlands at the Court of France
Publication: Great Masters in the Louvre Gallery
Publication Year: 1899-1900
Publisher: D. Appleton & Goupil & Co. (New York & Paris)
Approximate Page Size (in inches): 12½ x 16¾
Approximate Image Size (in inches): 10 x 13
Condition: EX. Very clean.
