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Portrait of a Man
Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621-1660/69)
c. 1650
- Medium
- Oil on copper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 30.2 cm (14 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 54.9 × 3.8 cm (24 × 21 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Sophia P. Morton Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This fine portrait, a rare example on copper, demonstrates Jan Baptist Weenix’s subtle handling of his subject’s distinctive facial features. This work was likely commissioned at the same time as another similarly sized portrait of an older man, also on copper, now in a collection in Kingston, Ontario. While most pendant portraits of the period depicted men and women, paired portraits of men were produced as treasured tokens of friendship or kinship.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
