Portrait of Erard de la Marck, by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, c. 1528 - c. 1530
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Portrait of Erard de la Marck

Also titled Portret van Erard de la Marck

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)

c. 1528 - c. 1530

Medium
panel, oil paint (paint)
Classification
painting
Dimensions
support: height 64.4 cm x width 55.5 cm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the State of the Netherlands and the Stichting tot de Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Erard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège, had a reputation as a ruthless inquisitor (opponent of heresy), but also as a great patron of the arts and a protagonist of the modern Renaissance style in the northern and southern Netherlands.