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An Old Man in a Fur Cap

Karel van der Pluym · c. 1655

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Artist

Karel van der Pluym

Date

c. 1655

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on cradled panel

Size

71.3 × 54.8 cm (28 1/16 × 21 9/16 in.); Framed: 88 × 71.8 × 4.5 cm (34 5/8 × 28 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Place

Holland

Period

17th century

Themes

Portraits · Interiors · Reading and letters

Main colour

Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Chester D. Tripp. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules