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DYCK, Sir Anthony van: Portrait of Antonio de Tassis

🖼 Portrait of Antonio de Tassis, 1634
Oil on canvas
126 × 89 cm
Vienna, Austria

Soft brushwork renders the sitter's confident gaze and luxurious fabric with Flemish precision, his pose elegant yet commanding. Van Dyck's portraiture defined 17th-century courtly sophistication, influencing European painting's approach to aristocratic representation.

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