A
portrait of
Isaac Massa (1586–1643), a
Dutch grain trader, traveller and envoy to the
Grand Duchy of Moscow, and his wife Beatrix van der Laen. Massa first went to
Moscow in 1601 for business, wherein he witnessed the
Time of Troubles, and his memoirs of that time are considered the least
biased of contemporary sources. This painting is considered unique in composition for the period; the novel composition was probably Massa's own design.
Artist: Frans Hals