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In this small, oval-shaped portrait, an unidentified man turns his head slightly towards the viewer and looks directly out of the picture. A white shirt collar emerges from beneath his sober black jacket, which has small buttons running down the front. The reverse of the painting is inscribed with the date 1661, but this seems unlikely as the sitter’s costume is datable to earlier in the seventeenth century. This small-scale portrait is painted on a walnut panel and was probably intended to be portable, particularly since its wooden support would have been more robust than canvas. When the painting entered the National Gallery’s collection in 1906, it was attributed to Annibale Carracci, an artist whose portraits share a similar directness.
Title
Bust of a Bearded Man
Date
17th C
Medium
Oil on walnut
Measurements
H 25.7 x W 18.7 cm
Accession number
NG2105
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by the Misses Cohen as part of the John Samuel collection, 1906
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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