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Portrait of a Man, possibly a Clergyman
Also titled Portret van een man, mogelijk een geestelijke
Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
c. 1657 - c. 1660
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
The sitter’s identity is unknown. Based on the headgear (calotte) he is wearing, it has been assumed that he is a clergyman. However, this is not certain, as people from other walks of life also wore similar skullcaps. In his final days, Hals created an entire series of smaller portraits of this kind.
