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The Coin Collector
Hendrik Gerritsz Potabout 1655
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: The Coin Collector
- Creator Lifespan: 1585 - 1657
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Creator Gender: Male
- Date Created: about 1655
- Type: oil paintings
- Rights: Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/17943
- Medium: oil on wood
- wall label: Pot is best known as a painter of small-scale genre scenes and portraits, usually of single figures seated at a table. His later works, including this one, are influenced by Rembrandt's treatment of light and his characterization of human subjects. The elderly man in this portrait is consulting a book that shows the coinage of different mints. He is either a coin collector or a money changer.
- measurements: 18 x 15 7/8 in.
- Artist: Pot, Hendrik Gerritsz.
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