Portrait of a Nobleman
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4630
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of a Nobleman
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 57.7 x 44.6
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
Information about author
Object description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, bourgeois portraiture was widespread in Western Ukraine. Gradually, it loses a number of attributes that were common for portraits of noblemen. It becomes less important for customers to show their social status than to immortalize the image of a respected person for relatives or the community. The portrait shows a bust-length image of an unknown man in a proud pose. The profile figure of a man with a blue ribbon and the Order of the White Eagle stands out from the dark background. The artist focused on portrait features of the elderly nobleman.
