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Male Portrait

Dirck Barendsz

Basic information

ID: Ж-750
Author: Dirck Barendsz
Name: Male Portrait
Date of creation: 1562
Technique: oil painting
Material: wood oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 34.2 x 28.2

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Received from the Lubomirski Museum, 1940
Exposition: Potocki Palace

Information about author

Author: Dirck Barendsz
Artist's lifetime: 1534–1592
Country: Netherlands
Biography: Dirck Barendsz (1534–1592) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam. His first teacher was his father, the painter Barend Dircksz, also known as Deaf Barent. The artist travelled to Italy, where he studied with Italian masters, including Titian, for seven years. He depicted religious and mythological subjects, portraits, and genre scenes

Object description

The painting, probably by Dirck Barendsz, depicts a young man, approximately forty years old. Researchers have noted that the portrayed figure bears a resemblance in style and interpretation to the models from the artist's work "The Banquet of the Officers of the Civic Guard" (1566). However, the author of this work could be another Northern Netherlandish artist of that time who worked under the creative solid influence of Dirck Barendsz in Haarlem – Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), who created in a Mannerist style. He painted religious and mythological compositions and was renowned as one of the finest portraitists of his time. He also worked in graphic arts.

Inscriptions

In the upper left, the date is inscribed: "1562".

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