# Portrait of Cornelis Montigny de Glarges [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERSPRONCK, Jan Cornelisz]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm ## Commentary This painting portrays Cornelis Montigny de Glarges, aged 43, half-length, in a brown coat and white lace ruff. He came from a wealthy Dutch family, and was educated at the University of Leiden. He was clearly very well connected in Haarlem and Leiden: he maintained an album amicorum from 1622 until 1679 in which friends including the still-life painter Floris van Dyck, and the draughtsman and engraver Jacob Matham, the portraitist David Bailly, as well as poets, historians, scientists and philosophers such as Jacob Cats, Samuel Ampzing, Theodor Schrevelius, Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens and René Descartes inscribed poems, drawings and messages of goodwill. Several of these friends of Montigny de Glarges also sat to Frans Hals, but while the pose of the present sitter reminds us of Hals, it is actually more extreme than in any of Hals' portraits, with the sitter's shoulder cocked elbow pointing straight out at the viewer, while his face is almost full-frontal. Although Verspronck was certainly influenced by his older townsman, his technique is entirely different and much more restrained, and his lighting more complex and theatrical. ## Related artworks - [Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer]() - [Girl in a Blue Dress]() - [Portrait of a Bride]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man and Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Anthonie Charles de Liedekercke]() - [Portrait of Margaretha Dicx \(1634-1697\)]() - [Portrait of Willemina van Braeckel]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()