print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.647
- Description
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Portrait of René Descartes, half-length to left, wearing a black cloak with white collar, holding his hat; first state before publisher's address; after Frans Hals
Engraving
- Production date
- 1650 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 315 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is first state, for second state with publisher's address see R,6.248. After the 1649 painting by Frans Hals, now in Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (on permanent loan from Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek), inv.no.998; see S. Slive. 'Frans Hals', exh.cat. Washington-London- Haarlem, 1989, London-Munich, cat.no.66. Also see copy in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.1317.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.647
