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Hard to decide between it and Jan Lievens's ravishing "Young Girl in Profile,'' but this large portrait study, or "tronie,'' makes such a lively impression that it's difficult to look away.
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However, this painting was certainly not a portrait in the 17th-century sense of the term, but rather a tronie.
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Johan Larson, a Hague/London sculptor was known to have had another Vermeer tronie valued at only 10 guilders.
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In deference to the category, a Rembrandt tronie was sold for a mere 7 guilders in the same sale as the two Vermeer's.
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However, is not out of the question that it was another tronie sold in the same auction for only 17 guilders.
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Some scholars conjecture that it corresponds to "a tronie in antique dress, uncommonly artful" sold at 46 guilders, a trifle if compared to the equally-sized
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The hierarchical importance of subject matter was held in great consideration and a tronie such as the Girl with a
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Girl with a Pearl Earring was not seen as a portrait but a tronie, a sort of characteristic bust-length figure whose ability to capture the purchaser's eye, rather than the sitter's identity, was the artist's main concern.
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Critics now believe that Vermeer drew his inspiration from art rather than life, specifically from Michael Sweerts 'and Holding a Nosegay, an excellent example of the Dutch tronie tradition.
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His Faces Get In Ours: It seems Lievens and Rembrandt may deserve joint credit for inventing the peculiarly Dutch art of the character study, known as a "tronie."
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Art historians will tell you that this genre, popular in the Dutch Golden Age, is called tronie—you’re supposed to be looking not at an individual old man but at old man-ness, not at a soldier but at soldier-ness, not at a girl but at girl-ness.
The Eternal Mysteries of Red Jackson Arn 2025
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