# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HALS, Frans]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 85 x 67 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Man 1650-53 Oil on canvas, 85 x 67 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Only the late Hals knew how to preserve the strict precision of a virtuoso painter without keeping his nervous irritation in check. The almost abstract chromatic perfection does not impede the impression of truthfulness: the white patch in the foreground, for which it is hard to find an explanation in the subject, emerges from the darkness of the cape with the same sharpness sensed in the model's arrogant gaze and grumpily crumpled chin. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man in a Large Hat]() - [Andries van der Horn]() - [Anetta Hanemans]() - [Anna van der Aar]() - [Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard Company]() - [Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard \(detail\)]() - [Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard]() - [Banquet of the Officers of the St Hadrian Civic Guard Company]() - [Boy holding a Flute \(Hearing\)]() - [Boy Playing a Violin]() - [Boy with a Lute]() - [Buffoon Playing a Lute]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()