Van Dyck - European portrait painter

• from: 08.10.2008
• to: 25.01.2009
• In: Musée Jacquemart-André

Van Dyck - a European portrait painter

The Jacquemart-André museum is re-examining the main stages in the career of Antoon Van Dyck through a genre in which he excelled: the art of portraiture.

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From October 8th, 2008, to January 25th, 2009

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Jacquemart André museum, Paris

The Jacquemart-André museum is re-examining the main stages in the career of Antoon Van Dyck through a genre in which he excelled: the art of portraiture. By assembling the most significant canvasses from the great European and American museums, this exhibition celebrates a painter to whom French museums have never before devoted a monographic exhibition. A pupil of Rubens and inspired by the Italian school, he developed his own style midway between what he learnt from his teacher and the Titian model. A brilliant Court portrait artist, he painted members of the English royal family, particularly King Charles I. His elegant and melancholic expressiveness attracted the English aristocracy and provided us with a superb gallery of great figures from Europe at that period, especially Stuart England.

• Updated: 07.10.2008

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