# Portrait of a Man Holding a Watch

- By: Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt (Dutch)
- Date: c. 1665–70
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit line: L. E. Holden Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.105)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2017.105/2017.105_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Held in the hand or displayed in a private domestic space, miniature portraits were designed for intimate viewing. The sitter holds a watch, often a symbol of mortality and the passage of time. Like his colleague Gerrit Dou, Slingelandt was one of the Leiden fijnschilders (fine painters), a group of artists whose paintings were internationally recognized for their extraordinary detail and precise technique.