Willem Drost, 1654 - The Sibyl - fine art print

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Although once a well-known Rembrandt, there is now a strong consensus that this canvas was painted about 1654–55 by his pupil, Willem Drost (1633–1659). The female type, the drawing of facial features, and the painterly execution of the costume are characteristic of Drost. The subject (which is rare in Northern Europe) and composition appear to have been inspired by a recent Italian example such as Domenichino's Cumaean Sibyl of 1616–17 in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. Drost worked in Italy from 1655 until his early death.

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This painting named The Sibyl was created by the male Dutch artist Willem Drost. The version of the painting was painted with the size: 38 1/2 x 30 3/4 in (97,8 x 78,1 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the European painter as the medium of the piece of art. Today, the piece of art is part of the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (licensed: public domain). : Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915. In addition to that, the alignment is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Willem Drost was a painter, printmaker, draftsman, whose artistic style can mainly be assigned to Baroque. The European artist was born in 1633 and deceased at the age of 26 in 1659.

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