Shown from the waist up on the far side of a table or ledge, a man with a pale, olive complexion rests his arm alongside a small white dog lying on the ledge in this vertical portrait painting. The scene has an overall honey-colored hue over a palette dominated by blacks, olive green, and gold-tinged ivory white. To our right in the composition, the man’s body is angled to our left and he looks out at us from the corners of his dark eyes. He has a straight nose and high cheekbones. A mustache and trimmed beard frame his pink lips, which curve slightly up at the corners. His brown hair is…
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Portrait of a Man with a Dog

Cariani (Venetian, 1485/1490 - 1547 or after)

c. 1520

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.7 x 53.2 cm (26 1/4 x 20 15/16 in.) ; framed: 94.6 x 80.6 x 6.3 cm (37 1/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Samuel L. Fuller
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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