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| Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon |
Artist:Wallerant Vaillant (Flemish, Lille 1623–1677 Amsterdam)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:29 3/4 x 25 in. (75.6 x 63.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, George T. Delacorte Jr. Gift, 1957
Accession Number:57.104
A native of Lille, Vaillant trained in Antwerp and by the mid-1650s was well established as a portraitist in Amsterdam. The artist is also known as a pioneer of mezzotint engraving. In Dutch and Flemish portraits, falcons usually refer to hunting as an aristocratic sport.
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