Bearded Man with a Beret

Bearded Man with a Beret by Jan Lievens

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 53.5 x 46.3 cm (21 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CNE-B

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman

Accession Number

2006.172.1

Art Historical Context

**Bearded Man with a Ber** *Jan Lievens, c. 1630* Oil on panel, 53.5 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, of George M. and H. Kaufman Step into the intimate world of Dutch Golden Age portraiture with Jan Lievens' *Bearded Man with aet*, painted around 1630. This oil-on-panel work captures a rugged, expressive face in a compact format perfect for close study, typical of the era's *tronies*—character heads that explored human emotion and physiognomy rather than specific identities. Lievens, a Leiden-born prodigy (1607–1674), honed his skills alongside his close friend and contemporary Rem...

About the Artist

Jan Lievens · 16071674

Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...

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