''The Blind Man'' is a 1910 painting by the Flemish artist Gustave Van de Woestyne, now in the Royal Museum for Fine Arts, Antwerp. It is one of a series of portraits of farm workers he produced in

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...

and shows the influence of what were then called the 'Flemish Primitives', such as

Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden () or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly ...

's ''Portrait of Philip van Croy''. Nathalie Verstraete, in ''Vouwblad Educatieve Dienst Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen. Gustave van de Woestyne'', p. 3

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20th-century portraits Portraits of men Paintings in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Paintings by Gustave Van de Woestijne 1910 paintings {{20C-painting-stub