Portrait of a Man with a Large Feather in His Hat
Andries Both
1622–42
Medium
Etching; second state
Dimensions
plate: 11.9 cm diameter sheet: 4 11/16 x 4 11/16 in. (11.9 x 11.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.5
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
HatsMenProfilesFeathers
About the Artist
Andries Both · 1612–1641
**Andries Both** (c. 1612/1613–1642) was a Dutch genre painter best known for his lively depictions of everyday life among the lower classes in Rome and its countryside. Born in Utrecht as the son of glass painter Dirck Both, he trained alongside his brother Jan under the prominent Utrecht master Abraham Bloemaert, with records confirming his apprenticeship in 1624–1625. Both and his brother trav...