Unknown Man, aged 22
Portrait Miniature
1616 (painted)
1616 (painted)
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Portrait half-length, to right and looking to front; right hand placed against breast and left hand resting on hip. The sitter is wearing a ruff collar. Features in dark grey-brown, hatched and stippled on the bare vellum; hair, collar and costume lined and hatched in pale brown; in the background broken lines of pale brown 'ruled' to produce the illusion of the niche; on unsupported vellum.
Frame: An oval frame, perhaps eighteenth-century, of fruitwood stained brown, with a moulded tortoiseshell front, and with the inner rim painted with gold.
Frame: An oval frame, perhaps eighteenth-century, of fruitwood stained brown, with a moulded tortoiseshell front, and with the inner rim painted with gold.
Object details
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| Title | Unknown Man, aged 22 (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | on vellum |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an Unknown Man, aged 22, watercolour on vellum, by Balthasar Gerbier, 1616 |
| Physical description | Portrait half-length, to right and looking to front; right hand placed against breast and left hand resting on hip. The sitter is wearing a ruff collar. Features in dark grey-brown, hatched and stippled on the bare vellum; hair, collar and costume lined and hatched in pale brown; in the background broken lines of pale brown 'ruled' to produce the illusion of the niche; on unsupported vellum. Frame: An oval frame, perhaps eighteenth-century, of fruitwood stained brown, with a moulded tortoiseshell front, and with the inner rim painted with gold. |
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| Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
| Object history | Provenance: Jeffrey Whitehead, his sale, Christie's 10 August 1915, lot 635, by Drawings", Connoisseur, LI, Pt. 1(1918), p. 65, repro.; Long 1929, p. 170; Foskett 1979, pl. 13d; Summary Catalogue, 1981, p. 24. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
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| Accession number | EVANS.338 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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