Katherine, Lady Stanhope, later Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon

Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641) (workshop of)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1636-1640

Height:

130.2 cm  (51 1/4 in.)

Width:

150.5 cm  (59 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of two titled women in elegant attire, in front of an idyllic landscape; Katherine is standing, facing the viewer; Lucy is seated facing toward her companion but turning her head toward the viewer while playing a lute with a treble rider (partially visible from the back).

People as subjects

Chesterfield, Katherine Stanhope of (1609-1667)
Huntingdon, Lucy Davies Hastings, Countess of (1613-1679)

Iconclass

48CC7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked) - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (10 or 11 courses, with treble rider for the highest pitched string)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barnes, Susan J. Van Dyck: A complete catalogue of the paintings (New Haven: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004) 488-489, cat. no. IV.74.



Larsen, Erik. The paintings of Anthony Van Dyck (Freren, Germany: Luca Verlag, 1988) v. 2, 481, cat. no. A206.

Notes

Copies of this painting are owned by the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.1372) and Englefield Estate House.

RIdIM record id

6288