1650 (ca.), Frans Hals, The traveller -- Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem)
From the museum label: In the seventeenth century portraits were often completed in several lengthy steps. This small painting of a man in travelling dress is an exception. Hals did not prepare the panel; he painted the whole thing wet-in-wet without using any varnish and finished it in one sitting - a testimony to his extraordinary virtuosity. The small size meant that the sitter could take his portrait home straight away.
1650 (ca.), Frans Hals, The traveller -- Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem)
From the museum label: In the seventeenth century portraits were often completed in several lengthy steps. This small painting of a man in travelling dress is an exception. Hals did not prepare the panel; he painted the whole thing wet-in-wet without using any varnish and finished it in one sitting - a testimony to his extraordinary virtuosity. The small size meant that the sitter could take his portrait home straight away.