Portrait of J. Basnage, [Walloon minister and historian]
1650
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
1650
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
Dominant colour
Portrait of J. Basnage, [Walloon minister and historian] is a 1650 unspecified by Pieter van, Gunst, a Dutch Golden Age work, held at Leiden University Libraries.
This painting shows a man sitting with books and papers. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The man in the painting is J. Basnage, a minister and historian. The artist likely copied this from another painting. The original was made by J. Holshalp. This tells us that artists often worked from existing images. To learn more about similar portraits, look up the technique of sfumato.
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