Versatile Virtuoso - Wallerant Vaillant in Amsterdam
The seventeenth-century artist Wallerant Vaillant was highly sought after and famous in his own time but fell into obscurity, at least with the general public. Among connoisseurs and artists, Vaillant remained known for his versatility: he practised various techniques and captured different layers of Amsterdam’s population. The exhibition opens on 4 October at Museum Van Loon.
Versatile Virtuoso - Wallerant Vaillant in Amsterdam
Wallerant Vaillant
The Lille-born artist came to Amsterdam in 1643 after his training in Antwerp. Like many in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Vaillant was an immigrant. He quickly made a name as a portraitist but also explored the latest graphic techniques and became one of the forerunners of mezzotint, a groundbreaking technique also known as “black art.” His pioneering use of this technique still makes him a significant name in graphic art today. It ensured that even a hundred years after his death, he was described in the magazine De Gids as a stranger “on whose stay here every Amsterdammer may truly be proud […]”.
Dates and times
| Friday 4 October | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday 5 October | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday 6 October | 10:00 - 17:00 |
Versatile Virtuoso - Wallerant Vaillant in Amsterdam
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