Shown from the hips up, a man with pale skin and shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a long-sleeved, rose-pink satin jacket and pants, props a flagpole with a voluminous blue flag against one shoulder in this vertical portrait painting. He stands with his body facing our left in profile with his left hand on his hip, elbow jutting out at us. He turns his face to look directly at us with dark eyes. He has a straight nose, rosy cheeks, and a mustache and narrow goatee below his lips, which are slightly parted. He wears a wide-brimmed black hat generously adorned with pale blue, turquoise, pale…
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Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer

painter Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck (Dutch, 1606/1609 - 1662)

1640

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 104 x 78.5 cm (40 15/16 x 30 7/8 in.) ; framed: 137.2 x 111.8 x 8.9 cm (54 x 44 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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