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In 2000 the portrait was sold at Christie's in London as a portrait of the wife of the theologian Johannes Sylvius for nearly 20 million pounds. [5] Aeltje Pietersdr Uylenburgh lived in the minister's residence of the Oude Kerk and was the daughter of Saskia van Uylenburgh's uncle Pieter, making them first cousins, though Aeltje was a generation older and probably served as a guide for the 21 ...
Portrait of an Old Woman, c 1480, 26.5 x 17.8cm (14.6 × 10.6in). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Portrait of an Old Woman is a small oil on wood panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, completed c 1475–80, and in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, since 1944. The panel has obviously been cut down ...
Portrait of an Elderly Man or Portrait of an Old Nobleman (Spanish - Retrato de caballero anciano) is a 1597-1600 oil on canvas portrait by El Greco, now in the Prado Museum. [1] [2] Its subject's name is unknown but he probably came from Toledo, where the artist was then working. [3] It was stored in the basement of the Real Alcázar of Madrid.
The poignancy of the image is dramatized by the contrast between the man's weathered and wise face, and the child's delicate profile. While the composition is thematically related to portraiture from the Netherlands, by the mid-15th century the motif of a portrait in an interior with a landscape seen in the distance was common in Italy. [1] [4]
The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Matsys around 1513.. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, measuring 62.4 by 45.5 cm. [1] It shows an old woman with wrinkled skin and withered breasts.
Elizabeth du Gué Trapier was the first scholar to refer to the painting as Portrait of an Old Man in 1925. [15] August L. Mayer's 1926 argument for identification as a self portrait was generally accepted by scholars until Harry B. Wehle's 1940 catalogue which points to a lack of evidence connecting the work to Jorge Manuel Theotocopuli 's ...
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Central to the painting, seated before a landscape, is a young man with a medal between his hands. The man gazes out into the audience, while the medal displays the profiled likeness of Cosimo de' Medici. The medal is a pastiglia imitation of a real metal medal, made of gilded gesso and inset into the portrait. [1]