Anthony van Dyck (1610)

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Nine scraps of paper with sketches of faces of men with beards have been pasted into medallions. These scraps once formed part of a sheet of studies drawn by Anthony van Dyck with black ink. He used these sheets of model drawings in his studio as examples for himself and his pupils. Some of these faces were based on those kept by his own teacher, Peter Paul Rubens.   rijksmuseum.nl