This painting is a portrait of a person depicted from the waist up, turned slightly to the right with one hand raised to their chest. The person has pale skin, rosy cheeks, a thin mustache, and long, curly brown hair. They are wearing a loose, long-sleeved blue garment on top of a billowing white shirt. The background features a dark interior space with an arched window on the right, through which a landscape with trees and a distant spire is visible under a blue sky.
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The Artist as Lover

Ary de Vois (Dutch, 1631/32 - 1680)

c. 1660s

Medium
oil on copper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 17 × 13.3 cm (6 11/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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