Portrait of Benjamin de Brissac, minister of the Walloon Church in Amsterdam
1745
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
1745
unspecified
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
This painting shows a man sitting in a room, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. He's holding a book and looks serious. The man in the painting is Benjamin de Brissac, a minister of the Walloon Church in Amsterdam, and this portrait is based on an earlier work by another artist, which is an interesting fact about its creation. To learn more about similar artworks, look up the technique: sfumato.
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