Portrait of Paulus Potter
Henricus Wilhelmus, (1814-1845), Couwenberg
1850
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
Henricus Wilhelmus, (1814-1845), Couwenberg
1850
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
Dominant colour
Portrait of Paulus Potter is a 1850 unspecified by Henricus Wilhelmus, (1814-1845), Couwenberg, a Realism work, held at Leiden University Libraries.
This is a small ink portrait of a man named Paulus Potter. He sits in a chair, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. His face is calm, his eyes steady. Potter was a painter too, but this isn’t his work. It’s by Henricus Couwenberg, who made it with pen and grey wash. The lines are soft but clear, giving Potter a quiet presence. Couwenberg wasn’t famous, but he knew how to catch a face with few strokes. If you like this, try looking up Couwenberg, Henricus Wilhelmus, (1814-1845), (artist).
Dutch painter in the early 1800s, Henricus Couwenberg made formal portraits that feel more like records than experiments.
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