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DYCK, Sir Anthony van: Portrait of a Member of the Balbi Family

🖼 Portrait of a Member of the Balbi Family, c. 1625
Oil on canvas
132.7 × 120 cm
Cincinnati, USA

Soft brushwork and warm ochre tones render an elegantly posed gentleman, his hand resting on his hip in studied nonchalance. Van Dyck's fluid technique and refined characterization established the prototype for aristocratic portraiture across seventeenth-century Europe.

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