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Portrait of a Man, Probably from the Pauw Family
Also titled Portret van een man, vermoedelijk uit het geslacht Pauw
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht, ca. –voor)
1625
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 127.5 cm x width 94 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from a private collector
- 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 archetypal image of an affluent Dutch citizen at the beginning of the 17th century: confident – even a touch pompous – and fashionably dressed, but without undue excess. Although the sitter’s identity is unknown, he was probably a member of the fabulously wealthy Pauw family of Amsterdam merchants. The picture is still in its original black painted and parcel-gilt oak frame.
