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Portrait of a Man
Also titled Portret van een man
Corneille de la Haye named de Lyon (The Hague, 1500–1575)
c. 1530
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 19.3 cm x width 15.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Broere Charitable Foundation
- 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
Originally from The Hague, the painter Corneille lived in Lyon from 1533. While there he worked for the French queen Eleonore and was eventually appointed painter to her husband King François I. Corneille introduced a new form of small likenesses, distinguished by their great naturalism and lively portrayal of the sitters. The identity of this man with a penetrating gaze is unknown. His attire suggests a possible connection with a legal profession.
