Zelfportret

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Zelfportret van de schilder Paulus Moreelse. Buste, naar rechts, in een mantel met een dikke bontkraag.

Art Historical Context

Paulus Moreelse's *Zelfportret* (Self-Portrait), painted around 1623, captures the artist in a striking bust-length pose, turned to the right and draped in a rich mantle with a thick fur. This intimate oil-on-panel work, measuring 51.1 cm high by 46.6 cm wide, exemplifies the Dutch Golden Age's mastery of portraiture, a period when painters like Moreelse elevated self-representation into a showcase of technical prowess and personal status. Moreelse, a Utrecht artist (1571–1638) and twice mayor of the city, was influenced by Caravaggesque tendencies—dramatic realism and subtle light effects—wh...

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Paulus Moreelse

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