Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man wears furs and fine fabrics in this vertical portrait painting. He is angled to our left and looks down in that direction with brown eyes under slender brows. His shoulder-length, dark brown hair is topped by a soft black cap adorned with a gold medallion-like badge over the temple closer to us. The man has a long, pointed nose, his pale pink lips are closed, and his jawline is darkened by a five-o-clock shadow. He wears a white shirt with a wide, square neckline under a vest or low-cut doublet striped with black and gold. A…
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Portrait of a Gentleman

Bartolomeo Veneto (Lombard-Venetian, active 1502 - 1531)

c. 1520

Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.8 × 58.4 cm (30 1/4 × 23 in.) ; framed: 107 × 89.22 × 8.57 cm (42 1/8 × 35 1/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Lombard-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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