maalaus
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From the collection of Porvoo Museum
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From the collection of Porvoo Museum
Dominant colour
maalaus is an unspecified by tuntematon, a Rococo painting work, held at Porvoo Museum.
The painting shows a man in old-fashioned clothes. He's wearing a wig with curls on each side of his head. This style of wig was popular in the early 1700s, which helps us guess when the painting was made. The man's clothes are fancy, like those worn by important people. His outfit suggests he might have been a person of high status. To learn more about this style of portrait, look into the technique of sfumato.
This was an artist who mixed paint and metal like ingredients in a recipe, flipping between portraits and ships as if they were the same dish served two ways.
See the richer artist page
