Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of a Family)
Caesar van Everdingen · Oil on canvas · Dutch Golden Age · 1652 · Mauritshuis
Find the lantern first, then see how each pose turns a family portrait into a classical story.
Exhibition: Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century — Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka · –