Thursday, November 11, 2021

Sixteenth-Century Portraits by Dutch Painters

Cornelis van Haarlem
Self Portrait
ca. 1588-90
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem
1583
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail)
1583
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Banquet for Members of the
Civil Guard of Haarlem
(detail)
1583
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail)
1583
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail)
1583
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

attributed to Jan van Scorel
Portrait of a Man
before 1562
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Jan Mostaert
Portrait of a Woman
1525
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Mostaert
Portrait of Joost van Bronckhorst
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Petit Palais, Paris

Jan Mostaert
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1500
oil and tempera on panel
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Jan Mostaert
Portrait of Abel van Coustler
ca. 1515-25
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Jan Mostaert
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Self Portrait painting the Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Lucas van Leyden
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1521
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

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I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, the still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

– Saskia Hamilton (2012)