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The cloth merchant or tailor looks up at us, interrupted from his work. His cream and red costume contrasts with the black fabric marked with chalk lines that he is preparing to cut. He wears a sword belt, denoting high status, and his clothes are those of a successful professional rather than an artisan; he may have been a senior officer of a guild, proud to be portrayed at his work. The portrait appears to capture a fleeting moment, like a snapshot, giving it a startling vitality and psychological realism highly unusual for the time.
The immediacy and vividness of this portrait may be partly due to Moroni’s method of painting directly from life without making preliminary drawings.
Title
The Tailor ('Il Tagliapanni')
Date
1565-70
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 99.5 x W 77 cm
Accession number
NG697
Acquisition method
Bought, 1862
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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