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HALS, Frans: Portrait of a Man Holding a Book

🖼 Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, 1640-43
Oil on canvas
66 × 48.5 cm

Caught mid-turn, the figure grips a leather-bound book while gazing outward with confident directness. Hals's fluid brushwork and warm ochre tones capture bourgeois Dutch identity and intellectual aspiration in the Golden Age.

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Jaap van der Veen
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