Caesar Alexander Scaglia, probably 1626/1641

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series Title

Iconography [1990.125.1.1-125]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.9 x 18.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
page size: 37.4 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 43, State vii or ix/ix

Accession Number

1990.125.1.31

Artists / Makers

Paulus Pontius (artist) Flemish, 1603 - 1658

Sir Anthony van Dyck (artist after) Flemish, 1599 - 1641

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Inscription

lower left in plate: P. Pontius Sculp.; lower center in plate: Ant. van Dyck pinxit; across bottom in plate: CAESAR ALEXANDER SCAGLIA ABBAS STAPHARDAE ET MANDANICES. ...

Provenance

Frances Molesworth (inscribed 1777, and again as a gift to [illegible] 1780); Juliana Woodforde (inscribed "Oct. 14, 1832"). Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Molesworth, Frances
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.
Woodforde, Juliani

Exhibition History

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as Self-Portrait from illustrated volume Le Cabinet des plus beaux Portraits ... faits par le fameux Antoine van Dyck.

2004: "The Unfinished Print", The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

Bibliography

1884: Dutuit, Eugène. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Vol. I, IV-VI. Paris: A Levy, 1884-1885. Reprint. Amsterdam: G.W. Hissink, 1970-1972.

1991: Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie. L'iconographie d'Antoine van Dyck: Cataloque raisonné. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Brussels, 1991.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Anthony Van Dyck, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 43, state vii or ix/ix.