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Date : near 1631
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : Lent by a private collector
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European Painting
Landscape
Area related
Neitherlands
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Elderly men usually served as the models for portrait studies in "Eastern" dress that preoccupied Lievens and his friends Rembrandt van Rijn before 1630. Here Lievens uses areas of luminous color to frame the young sitter's features. Passages of "impasto" (thick paint) on the gold chain and the airy strokes of the feather also contribute to the radiant, intriguing presence, Gerrit Dou, perhaps finishing a work begun by Rembrandt, used the same model in the double portrait nearby. While the vigorous, sculptural quality of Lievens' portrait reveals the classicizing influence of Dutch court painters, Dou's softer, more refined handling anticipates his later career as a leader of the Leiden school of "fine" painters.
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