Collection

Portrait of an Unknown Man with a Carnation

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Basic information
ID
Ж-4539
Author
unknown
Name
Portrait of an Unknown Man with a Carnation
Date of creation
1674
Technique
oil painting
Material
canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
55.5 x 25
Additionally
Information about author
Author
unknown
Artist's lifetime
1638–1709
Country
Holland
Biography
Мейндерт Гоббема – один із основних представників пейзажного живопису в Амстердамі другої половини XVII століття. У 1659-му році він познайомився з пейзажистом Якобом ван Руйсдаелем та розпочав у нього навчання, яке стало вирішальним у формуванні стилю митця. На початку кар’єри Гоббема наслідував манеру вчителя, однак згодом відійшов від похмурої атмосфери його робіт у бік яскравіших колірних рішень. Спеціалізацією художника стали лісові пейзажі, краєвиди з дорогами, ставками і водяними млинами.
Object description
In the seventeenth century, with the increasing role of the bourgeoisie in public life, the bourgeois portrait grew popular. Its main task was to reflect the image of a person. An example of such painting could be a portrait of an unknown man with a carnation. On a dark background in a symbolic oval, there is a waist-length figure of a 59-year-old man, as indicated by the inscription on the canvas. The face of the person is reproduced professionally and with confident strokes. To convey the social status of the man, the artist painted a coat of arms in the upper left corner of the work and an expensive white collar with lace. A man holds gloves and a carnation in his right hand. The tradition of depicting portraits with flowers was known in European art. The Polish researcher Mieczyslaw Gebarowicz wrote that the portrait as a painting by Dolabella was bought from Kazimierz Stadnicki for the Ossolineum collection in Lviv in 1854, but the authorship has not been proven.