Portrait of Constantijn Huygens
Also titled Portret van Constantijn Huygens
Jan Lievens (Leiden, 1607–1674)
c. 1628 - c. 1629
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 100.2 cm x width 84.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Musée de la Chartreuse
- 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
Constantijn Huygens was secretary to Stadtholder Frederick Henry and a notable connoisseur. In his autobiography, he described how this painting was executed. Lievens painted the portrait in two stages, first the clothing and the hands, and then the face. This explains why the scale is a bit off: the head is too small in relation to the body.
