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Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Also titled Portret van Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Jacobus Buys (Amsterdam, 1724–1801)
1766
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- 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 Amsterdam timber merchant Ploos van Amstel, a founding member of the Felix Meritis Society, had an impressive collection of drawings, paintings, coins and medals and sculptures. He was also a designer, draughtsman and publisher, and invented a new print-making technique for making facsimile reproductions of drawings. The screen by the window ensures that a soft, even light falls on the copper plate on which he is working.
