Shown from the waist up, a light-skinned man sits sideways in a wooden chair so the arm closer to us rests along the chair’s back in this vertical portrait painting. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the clothing and hair. The man’s right arm, to our left, drapes across the back of the chair. His face turns slightly to our right, and he looks at us with gray eyes under black, curving brows. He has an oval face with high cheekbones and a snub nose. His coral-pink lips are closed and framed by a mustache and pointed patch of hair under his lower lip. He is lit from our left so…
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Willem Coymans

Frans Hals (Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666)

1645

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 77 × 64 cm (30 5/16 × 25 3/16 in.) ; framed: 102.24 × 89.85 × 7.62 cm (40 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 3 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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