Shown from about the waist up behind a forest-green desktop, a man with smooth, pale pink skin writes in an open book with a quill pen as he looks at us, surrounded closely by papers, pens and ink, and other objects in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled a little to our left but he tips his head slightly back and looks at us from the corners of his dark brown eyes under arched brows. He has a short, round nose, high cheekbones, and his pale pink lips are slightly pursed. His short, chestnut-brown hair curls over his ears, and bangs sweep across his forehead. His black beret…
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Portrait of a Man, possibly Jan Snoeck

Jan Gossaert (Netherlandish, c. 1478 - 1532)

c. 1530

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 63.6 × 47.5 cm (25 1/16 × 18 11/16 in.) ; framed: 83.8 × 68.6 × 7.62 cm (33 × 27 × 3 in.)
Culture
Netherlandish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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