Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned man wearing armor stands with his body facing our left in profile but he turns his head to look up and over our right shoulder in front of a distant, gray landscape in this vertical portrait painting. He looks into the distance with brown eyes under dark, arched eyebrows. Chestnut-brown hair flows around his ears and to the back of his neck. His straight nose is slightly hooked at the end, and his pink lips are closed under a wispy mustache. He has plump, lightly flushed cheeks, and sagging jowls lead to a double chin. Light from our left glints off…
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The Prefect Raffaele Raggi

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

c. 1625

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 131 × 105.4 cm (51 9/16 × 41 1/2 in.) ; framed: 156.21 × 132.08 × 8.89 cm (61 1/2 × 52 × 3 1/2 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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