09.24.2020-12.31.2020
PORTRAITS
A miniature portrait, an anonymous portrait, a disguised portrait, a group portrait and a full lenght portrait, the portrait stands out on the Flemish and Dutch artistic scene, between the 16th and the 17th centuries as a luxury good and as a prestigious piece of art.
Juste like religious painting, revealed by the Conter-Reformation, portrait painting rises, by its quality alone, to the top of a classification of subjects, not yet relevant outside France and which would habe been considered a minor genre according to the accademies.
Today, as in the past, artists and theorists have made the portrait's personal and intimate features, particularly extensive in its historical analysis.
The exhibition at the gallery Salomon Lilian, "Portraits", presents what made the genre of the portrait remarkable.
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Willem Willemsz VAN DER VLIET c. 1584 – Delft – 1642
Un fantassin tenant un verre et un pichet, 1627
Huile sur toile