Shown from about the hips up, a man with peachy skin, wearing an ink-black hat and coat with a bright white collar, looks out at us against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. He stands with his body angled to our right and his face turned to look at us with dark gray eyes. His slim face is framed in long, brown curls under his tall, brimmed hat, which is cocked a little to our right, away from us. He has a straight, prominent nose, lightly flushed cheeks, and a wispy, light brown mustache above a small, pointed goatee under his lower lip. His neck is encased in a broad,…
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Adriaen van Ostade

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

1646/1648

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 94 × 75 cm (37 × 29 1/2 in.) ; framed: 119.06 × 99.22 × 9.53 cm (46 7/8 × 39 1/16 × 3 3/4 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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