# Portrait of Jan Gerritsz van Egmond van de Nijenburg

- Date: after 1507
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: painted surface: height 35.5 cm x width 26.2 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-3838--eecd302f633cf6faf3c1c7d7ddd0d827)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5082f3664eebb688f129696bc5b13186.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.