Portrait Of A Boy With A Falcon — Wallerant Vaillant

Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon


wallerant vaillant (1623 - 1677)

Discover Wallerant Vaillant, a Dutch Golden Age painter famed for innovative mezzotints. Explore his portraits & scenes, a pioneer of printmaking techniques.

A native of Lille, Vaillant trained in Antwerp and by the mid-1650s was well established as a portraitist in Amsterdam. The artist is also known as a pioneer of mezzotint engraving. In Dutch and Flemish portraits, falcons usually refer to hunting as an aristocratic sport.