Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Portrait of Joseph Deutz
Also titled Portret van Joseph Deutz
Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
c. 1648 - c. 1649
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 99.5 cm x width 74.5 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
This is an unusual portrait: a young man direct engaging the viewer, as though he is about to speak. Sweerts portrayed Joseph Deutz in Rome, while he was sojourning there with his brothers. Deutz (1624–1684) was a member of one of the wealthiest families in Amsterdam. His art collection also included Sweerts’ paintings of the ‘Seven Works of Mercy’, four of which are presented in this gallery.
