Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Two records of the same sitter, mounted
This catalogue holds 2 entries by this painter whose titles put Charles I on a horse. They agree on very little. One is dated 1640 and located at the Museo del Prado; the other, this one, is dated 1635 and located at the National Gallery in London, and their dimensions are nothing alike. How the two relate is not something the catalogue states, and this page does not guess.
What the record holds
The dimensions are 61 x 96.5 cm, which is small for the state equestrian format: most of the mounted rulers assembled here run to two or three metres. Baroque is the recorded style, Flemish the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is brown. Portraiture, male portraiture and Animal Art > Horse are the subject headings on the record.
Function at a smaller size
The equestrian portrait's whole mechanism is elevation, the sitter placed above the viewer by the animal beneath him. At this scale the mechanism still operates, but the address changes. A picture of this size belongs to a room a person can cross rather than to a hall built around it.
Sources
5 references- Dyck, Anthony van — Getty ULAN
Flemish painter, 1599-1641, active in England
- Anthony van Dyck — Wikipedia
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; Dutch: Antoon van Dijck [ˈɑntoːɱ‿vɑn ˈdɛik]; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist, who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seve
- Charles I (1600-49) on Horseback — Wikidata
description: painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck; inception: 1635-01-01; dimensions: 96 × 86.3 cm; collection: Royal Collection
- royalcollection.org.uk — record for "Charles I (1600-49) on Horseback"
Primary source record for this work (royalcollection.org.uk).
- Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) (copy of) - Charles I (1600–1649), on Horseback - 1171163 - National Trust — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
