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A pale-skinned, bearded man sits at a table set in front of a window and smokes a pipe in this vertical painting. Light pours in from the window and leaves much of the room behind the man in deep shadow. The man’s body is angled to our left, and he rests his right elbow, also to our left, on the table and looks steadily at us. The man has a round face with rosy cheeks and a copper-red beard. His dark, gold-edged hat rolls back away from his face, creating an upward flounce. His cream-white, lace-edged collar lies across his shoulders over a gorget, the piece of silver armor that encircles…

A Soldier Smoking a Pipe

Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635 - 1681)

c. 1657/1658 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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