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Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned man wears a tall, black hat, wide white ruffs at the neck and cuffs, and a voluminous black garment in this vertical portrait painting. The dark costume nearly blends into the brown background in some places, so details are difficult to make out. The man sits in a chair so his body and knees are angled to our left. His face is also turned in that direction, but he looks at us from the corners of his brown eyes under dark, heavy brows. He has a thin face with a long, bumped nose. His brown mustache flicks up at the outer ends, and a thin line of hair…
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Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1626

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 128.9 × 105.4 cm (50 3/4 × 41 1/2 in.) ; framed: 160.66 × 141.61 × 16.19 cm (63 1/4 × 55 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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