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HALS, Frans: Willem van Heythuyzen

🖼 Willem van Heythuyzen, c. 1625
Oil on canvas
204.5 × 134.5 cm
Munich, Germany

Caught mid-gesture, a gentleman in rich black silk commands the composition with directness and swagger, rendered through Hals's fluid brushwork. This portrait revolutionized Dutch Golden Age painting, abandoning rigid formality for psychological immediacy and spontaneous energy.

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Jaap van der Veen
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