Maarten van Heemskerck, 1532 - Jacob Willemsz. van Veen (1456-1535), the Artist's Father - fine art print

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This painting was made by the male Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck in 1532. The over 480 year-old original was made with the size: 20 1/2 x 13 3/4 in (52,1 x 34,9 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on wood. Nowadays, this artwork forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, 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.. This classic art public domain masterpiece is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 1871. : Purchase, 1871. The alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a side ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width.

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This sober image of the artist's father was painted in the year Heemskerck left Haarlem for an extended trip to Italy. The inscription on the parapet reads, "My son portrayed me here when I had lived seventy-five years so they say." Departing from his usual classicizing style, the artist reverted to vernacular Dutch in Gothic letters, declaring this a portrait grounded in life and experience. A direct gaze confronts the viewer with the presence of a stern man nearing the end of his life. Three years later, Van Veen died at the age of seventy-nine, while Heemskerck was still abroad.

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