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While still a teenager he produced celebrated works, and he was merely eighteen when he painted this Married Couple, a sure-handed masterpiece betraying superior technical skill and mature...
The panel depicts a married couple in a single image, a format developed in German art and popular with clients. Examples of double portraits are also to be found in 15 th-century Flemish art.
‘Portrait of a Married Couple’ was created by Anthony van Dyck in Baroque style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
They stand close to one another, hand in hand, and are most likely only recently married. They wear their finest outfits with fashionable collars and expensive jewels. Codde captured the opulence of their clothing in meticulous detail, right down to the wedding ring on the woman’s index finger.
They are clearly husband and wife, and for many years the painting was understood as representing a marriage ceremony, though not anymore. From early on the painting was identified as showing one ‘Hernoul le Fin’ or ‘Arnoult Fin’.
Title: Portrait of a Married Couple. Creator: Codde, Pieter. Date Created: 1634. Physical Dimensions: h43 cm x w35 cm. Provenance: Willem, Count Van Aldenburg Bentinck and Waldeck-Limpurg and...
While still a teenager he produced celebrated works, and he was merely eighteen when he painted this Married Couple, a sure-handed masterpiece betraying superior technical skill and mature insight into human nature.
