Portrait of Peter Scriverius
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
10 3/8 x 6 in. (26.4 x 15.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924
Accession Number
24.57.27
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Frans Hals|Jan van de Velde II · 1582–1666
Dutch portrait artist whose unique style of loose brushstrokes was labeled 'unfinished' by some at the time, but whose work is now regarded as equally important to Rembrandt's. Hals painted 'wet on wet'; that coupled with his brushwork and his powerful illumination of his subjects' head and face, his portraits seem more animated than others. Although the reception to his work was often mixed, Hals...