This painting shows a man standing, his body and head slightly turned to the right. He has fair skin, arched eyebrows, round green eyes, a long nose, thin pink lips, a long brown beard, and a thin brown mustache. He wears a black flat-topped cap and a dark robe with puffed sleeves and lacy white details around the cuffs and neck. A gold ring with a green stone is on his left forefinger. He stands next to a wide window with a yellow sill, and in the background there is a landscape with dark green trees, green fields, a rustic house, and a faint person standing next to a horse, all under a…
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A Member of the Fröschl Family

Hans Mielich (German, 1516 - 1573)

c. 1539/1540

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 64.2 x 47 cm (25 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.) ; framed: 84.8 x 68.3 x 6.4 cm (33 3/8 x 26 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley
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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