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The Goldfinch

painting by Fabritius

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In Carel Fabritius
The Goldfinch (1654) is one of his best-known works and a unique composition in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch painting. An early portrait and a late portrait (1654) usually are regarded as self-portraits.
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Mauritshuis

In Mauritshuis
1665), Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch (1654), Jacob van Ruisdael’s View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds (c. 1670–75), and Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp (1632). The basis of the collection came from William V, prince of Orange and Nassau and stadtholder of the Dutch…
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