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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
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.