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Portrait of D.H. Baron Chassé

J.P. Lange

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Portrait of D.H. Baron Chassé is an unspecified by J.P. Lange, held at Leiden University Libraries.

Who painted this?: J.P. Lange
Where can I see it?: Leiden University Libraries

About this work

The painting shows a man sitting in a chair, looking straight at us. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes and has a serious face. The man in the painting is D.H. Baron Chassé, and this portrait is based on a work by another artist, J.W. Pieneman. The portrait was printed by J.F. Brugman, and an inscription was added later. To learn more, look up the technique of sfumato.

About the artist

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J.P. Lange

J.P. Lange painted oil-on-canvas portraits of Dutch officers in the early 1800s. In *Portrait of D.H. Baron Chassé*, a general stands at attention, his blue coat catching lamplight against a shadowed uniform-gray…

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