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Portrait of a Lady, Frans Hals, The Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of a LadyFrans Hals (1582–1666) · 1627The Art Institute of Chicago · Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0) · the museum’s recordscan 2,426 × 3,000 px

A masterwork Dutch Golden Age

Portrait of a Lady

Frans Hals, 1582–1666, painted 1627

Held by The Art Institute of Chicago and released as Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0). It hangs here as a reference for a hand: paint your own line and the painters copy its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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A print of the scan itself, up to 16 × 24 inches from these 2,426 × 3,000 pixels. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.

What a seed does
The painting is the instruction. The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, is the only subject.
The credit
Every painting seeded from it carries “after Frans Hals (1582–1666), Portrait of a Lady, The Art Institute of Chicago” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence
Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0), as the museum states it. The scan is served with that credit in its headers, and it is never upscaled.

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