A man with pale skin, wearing a gold-embroidered amber-yellow jacket and tomato-red pants, stands in front of a rocky outcropping with a distant view beyond in this vertical portrait painting. At the center of the composition and taking up most of it, the man stands with his body facing us, but he turns his head slightly to our left and looks off in that direction with slate-blue eyes under curving brows. His smooth cheeks are lightly flushed in his oval face. His full pink lips are closed and are framed by a mustache and small, pointed goatee under his lower lip. His wavy brown hair falls…
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Henri II de Lorraine

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

c. 1634

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 204.6 x 123.8 cm (80 9/16 x 48 3/4 in.) ; framed: 247.7 x 165.7 cm (97 1/2 x 65 1/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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