Willem van Heythuysen Posing with a Sword
Frans Hals · 1625
The story
Willem van Heythuysen posing with a sword is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625-1630, and now in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich. It shows the Haarlem cloth merchant Willem van Heythuysen in a theatrical pose with a rapier.
- Artist
- Frans Hals
- Date
- 1625
- Collection
- Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 204.5 × 134.5 cm
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