Jan van Goyen
1766
Meet the legendary landscape painter Jan van Goyen, captured here in a dashing profile complete with a massive, floppy hat and a stylish goatee. Interestingly, the artist Cornelis Ploos van Amstel drew this in 1766, more than a century after Goyen actually died! Ploos van Amstel was a massive fan and collector of Dutch Golden Age art, essentially creating a 'fantasy portrait' of his hero using black and red chalk to give the face a warm, lifelike glow. He was so obsessed with these old masters that he even invented a special machine to mass-produce copies of their drawings, making him a pioneer of art reproduction.
- Technique
- black and red chalk
- Material
- paper
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