The Rysbrack Statuettes of Rubens, van Dyck and du Quesnoy, Part 20, A Terracotta relief of van Dyck.

 A Terracotta Relief of Anthony van Dyck

Here attributed to Michael Rysbrack.

 

 

Anthony van Dyck

Here attributed to Michael Rysbrack.

415 x 362 x 76 mm.

Purchased in 1872

Koninklijke Musea, Brussels.

 

See Michael Rysbrack,  Kate Eustace

Bristol Museums Exhibition Catalogue 1982.

 

"Dr Charles Avery recently pointed out that it had close affinities with the Bristol van Dyck. But whether it is by Rysbrack remains open to question"

 

 

 

 

 

The Bristol Terracotta van Dyck.

 

 

The Greene Grisaille.

 

It should be noted that the detail of the collar is very close to the terracotta relief but varies  substantially from the Bristol terracotta of van Dyck.

The form of the collar is much closer to the original busts of van Dyck.