Artist
Pieter Gerritsz.
d. 1540
Pieter Gerritsz. was a Mannerism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings.
This Dutch painter worked in the mid-1500s, leaving behind a single surviving portrait of a bearded man in a dark cap and fur collar. The sitter’s intense gaze and the soft Northern Renaissance lighting make it feel like a quiet conversation from half a millennium ago. Look for the way the artist built up the fur’s texture with tiny, deliberate strokes. Next, tap into the same mood with his Portrait of a man.
Works by Pieter Gerritsz.
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