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Portrait of Jan Gerritsz van Egmond van de Nijenburg
Also titled Portret van Jan Gerritsz van Egmond van de Nijenburg
after 1507
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 35.5 cm x width 26.2 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
This sitter was a member of a prominent Dutch family. He served as bailiff and burgomaster of Alkmaar. In his right hand he holds a prayer nut encased in silver or gold, an extremely costly object for private devotion. He used it to demonstrate his piety, but also, and primarily, his affluence.
