Helena Fourment, Rubens's Wife - McArdell Mezzotint after Van Dyck
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Original mezzotint by James McArdell (Dublin, 1729-1765) after the canvas then at Houghton Hall, in the collection of the Earl of Orford, attributed to Van Dyck. It portrays at full length Helena Fourment, the second wife of Rubens, with a plumed hat and a fan before a landscape.
Original mezzotint by James McArdell (Dublin, 1729-1765) after the canvas then at Houghton Hall, in the collection of the Earl of Orford, attributed to Van Dyck. It portrays at full length Helena Fourment, the second wife of Rubens, with a plumed hat and a fan before a landscape.
McArdell was the outstanding mezzotint engraver of the Dublin school and Reynolds's preferred engraver. The Houghton Hall paintings he reproduced were sold in 1779 to Catherine II of Russia, so prints such as this one document a collection now dispersed.
Medium: Mezzotint.
Artist / after: After Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641).
Engraver: James McArdell (1729-1765).
Source: From the original at Houghton Hall, collection of the Earl of Orford.
Dimensions: 15.2 x 11.0 in (38.5 x 28 cm).
Condition: Foxing in the margins, visible in the photograph; a small tear in the left margin; paper browned with age.
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Original mezzotint by James McArdell (Dublin, 1729-1765) after the canvas then at Houghton Hall, in the collection of the Earl of Orford, attributed to Van Dyck. It portrays at full length Helena Fourment, the second wife of Rubens, with a plumed hat and a fan before a landscape.