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Portrait medallion of an unknown man
Also titled Medaillonportret van een onbekende man
Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Nijmegen, 1530–ca.)
c. 1575 - c. 1580
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- diameter 22.5 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
Although Van der Schardt entered into the service of Emperor Maximilian II in Nuremberg, he still worked for other patrons. Prominent citizens were eager to have him portray them. Such likenesses could take the form of three-dimensional busts or low reliefs of the face in profile. The choice was usually based on financial considerations; a relief was less expensive.
