Portrait of Wilhem van Heythuijsen, after Frans Hals
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 9/16 × 10 13/16 in. (42 × 27.5 cm) Plate: 9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25.3 × 19 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.1581
Tags
About the Artist
Frans Hals|Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart|François Liénard · 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...