Portrait is a painting genre depicting a real-life person or a group of people. The word 'portrait' originated from the French word 'portraire', which in turn developed from the French phrase 'trait pour trait', meaning ‘line after line’, as a description of the action and creation of the portrait. But even better the essence of the phenomenon is reflected in the outdated name of portrait –…

" Rarely have more humorous paintings been produced than in the Dutch Golden Age. Naughty children, stupid peasants, foolish dandies and befuddled drunks, quack doctors, pimps, procuresses, lazy maids and lusty ladies – they figure in large numbers in Golden Age masterpieces ," this is how they say about the upcoming exhibition  "The Art of Laughter: Humour in the Golden Age" on the Frans Hals…