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Portrait of a Man
Jan Mijtens (Dutch, c. 1614-1670)
c. 1665
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 104.8 × 84.1 cm (41 1/4 × 33 1/8 in.); Framed: 122 × 102.9 × 5.1 cm (48 × 40 1/2 × 2 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Ronald Fritz
- 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
Jan Mijtens situated this unidentified sitter against a twilight landscape, likely a subtle nod to his status as a gentleman and landowner. Mijtens, painter to the nobility—most notably, the House of Orange in The Hague—practiced an international style of portraiture that emphasized elegant poses, sumptuous garb, and confident demeanors. This mode had been developed by Dutch and Flemish artists working at foreign courts, including Jan’s uncle and probable teacher, Daniel Mijtens, who was court painter to Charles I of England.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
