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The identification of the friendly sitter for this small informal portrait as the Haarlem landscapist Frans Post (c. 1612-1680) is based on an inscription written on the lower margin of an impression of the first state of Jonas Suyderhoef's reverses engraving of it at the Albertina, Vienna. The print and the little painting are almost identical in size, which suggests that the painting was painted as a 'modello' for the engraving.
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