Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned man sits in front of the coiled body of a dragon in this vertical painting. The man’s body faces our right in profile, but he turns his head to look off to the right out of the corner of the large, dark eye we can see. He has short black hair, a bushy beard, and a small nose. A dark cap is draped with a feathery or fleecy material around a gold-colored medallion, which may show a person. The man wears a short sleeved black tunic over a raspberry-pink, long-sleeved garment. His right arm, closer to us, rests near the corner of a table, and he holds a…
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Portrait of a Man as Saint George

Attributed to painter Giuseppe Caletti (Italian, active c. 1620/1660)

c. 1620s

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 83.8 x 71.1 cm (33 x 28 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress 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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