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Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?)
Also titled Portret van een Afrikaanse man (Christophle le More?)
Jan Jansz Mostaert (Haarlem, 1465–1552)
c. 1525 - c. 1530
- Medium
- oil paint (paint), oak (wood)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 30 cm x width 20.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the VSBfonds, the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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 the only known portrait of a black man in early European painting. He may have served at the Brussels court of Emperor Charles V, who had a black archer called Christophle le More among his bodyguards. The badge of the Virgin on his cap is a souvenir of a pilgrimage to Halle (Brabant), a favourite destination of pilgrims from the Brussels court.
