# The Tribute Money [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BACKER, Jacob Adriaensz.]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 139 x 159 cm ## Commentary Jacob Adriaensz. Backer was influenced by Rembrandt's portraiture and history painting. Like Rembrandt and his pupils, he painted many study heads, so-called tronies, and he often dressed his figures in oriental or fantasy costumes. He rarely painted multi-figure scenes, concentrating instead on a few large figures with compositions closer to Rubens's classical style. The Tribute Money was earlier attributed to Backer's teacher Lambert Jacobsz., however, it is undoubtedly an early work by Backer, which calls to mind paintings by Lambert Jacobsz. ## Related artworks - [Granida and Daifilo]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of an Old Woman]() - [Portrait of Geertruida Hasselaer]() - [Portrait of Johannes Lutma]() - [The Hearing]() - [The Tribute Money \(detail\)]() - [Venus and Adonis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()