| Portrait of a Man | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Ferdinand Bol |
| Year | 1663 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 124 cm× 100 cm(49 in× 39 in) |
| Location | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Portrait of a Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Ferdinand Bol, from 1663. It is held in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [1] [2]
It shows a man with long blonde hair in a banyan against a background of architectural columns and a statue of Apollo. Its subject is unknown but may be Jacob van Campen, one of the most important proponents of Dutch classicism, Artus Quellinus, a sculptor who produced works for the stadhuis op de Dam and other buildings designed by Van Campen, or Louis Trip, who with his brother Hendrick designed the Trippenhuis, for which Bol painted a number of paintings. [3]
In 1984, the Rijksmuseum organized the exhibition Praise the frame, which examined the form and function of [painting frames in the 17th century. This showed that a large number of paintings in the Rijksmuseum contained a frame that did not belong to the original work. This was also the case with Bol's Portrait of a Man, which had a 17th-century Italian frame. To better present the work, it was decided to commission sculptor and restorer Maarten Robert to make a replica of a frame from the Dutch Golden Age.
The frame of the portrait of Johan de Witt by Jan de Baen, in the Dordrechts Museum, from the late 1660s, was used as a model. This frame consists of a pattern of intersecting olive branches with a recess at the top center for a family coat of arms. The replica was completed around 1995, after which the work was exhibited in the gallery of honour of the museum, for about 10 years, until it went on tour in 2005 during the renovation of the Rijksmuseum. [4]
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