Mattheus Wijtmans
Portrait of a man in a garden, his arm resting on a painted balustrade
Oil on canvas : 40 X 32,5 cm
Signed " M. WYTMANS F. "
Paris, Louvre

The portrait holds a strange insertion of a grotto interior after van Cuylenborch.
Wijtmans was born circa 1650 in Gorinchem, where he studied under Hendrick Verschuring, and died in 1689 in Utrecht, where he studied under Jan van Bijlert in 1665.