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Portrait of a Married Couple, Likely Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen
Also titled Portret van een echtpaar, mogelijk Isaac Abrahamsz Massa en Beatrix van der Laen
Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
c. 1622
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 140 cm x width 166.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
It was rare for a married couple to be portrayed lifesize and together in a single painting, and even more so in such an intimate and joyful manner. The patron would have had to have been receptive to such innovation. The close friendship between Hals and the newlywed couple, presumably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, likely played a crucial role in facilitating the creation of this audacious portrait.
