Portrait of Floris Soop

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Portrait of Floris Soop
The Standard Bearer
The Standard Bearer (Floris Soop, 1604-1657), by Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg
Artist Rembrandt
Year1654
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions140.3 cm× 114.9 cm(55.2 in× 45.2 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Accession49.7.35

Portrait of Floris Soop or The Standard Bearer is a 1654 oil on canvas portrait by Rembrandt, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The flag, the plume in the hat, and the tooled leather baldric (sword-belt worn over shoulder) indicate that the subject is an ensign in one of Amsterdam's civic guard companies. He is almost certainly Floris Soop, a wealthy bachelor who owned some 140 paintings.

The work is currently (2018) not on view.

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