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Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650), Frans Hals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650)Frans Hals (1582–1666) · ca. 1636–38The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record

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Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650)

Frans Hals, 1582–1666, painted ca. 1636–38

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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