Plaque with a Portrait of a Man
Also titled Plaquette met het portret van een man
Léonard Limosin (Limoges, 1505–1577)
c. 1525 - c. 1575
- Medium
- copper (metal), email
- Classification
- plaque
- Dimensions
- height 10.2 cm x width 8.2 cm x thickness 1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In his day Léonard Limosin was one of the best-known portraitists in enamel. His work was popular at the French court where he made likenesses of various members of the Bourbon dynasty. The unknown sitter portrayed here was probably a courtier.
