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Description: | This bust-length portrait of an elderly man, who wears a jewelled brooch on his chest and a fur collar, follows the tradition of painting tronies; these were character heads painted from life, often in exotic disguises. The main exponents of this genre were Dutch artists like Rembrandt and Ferdinand Bol. The handling, the palette and the use of chiaroscuro (extreme contrasts of light and dark) also suggest connections with seventeenth-century Dutch painting. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dutch (Amsterdam) School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Flemish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9047... | Go to resource |
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