The Charcoal-Burner
1621 · etching
plate: 8.9 x 12.5 cm (3 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 9.8 x 13.3 cm (3 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Willem Buytewech
Dutch Republic, 1591
Rotterdam
PaintingBaroque
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13
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19
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1
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Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem”.
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