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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 record

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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 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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A print of the painting itself, up to 16 × 24 inches. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.

Painting after it: The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, stays the subject.
The credit: Every painting made after 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 credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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