# Portrait of a Man, Probably from the Pauw Family

- By: Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht, ca. –voor)
- Date: 1625
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 127.5 cm x width 94 cm
- Credit line: On loan from a private collector
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1440--4ecb52c80fa2bb832ba787236e875691)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/4d2b38abe1d99e8e024662c58e9b8f40.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.