Umjetnik: Jan Jansz Mostaert
Datum: 1535
Veličina: 78 x 53 cm
Tehnika: Oil On Panel
The man is shown half-length, seated and writing at a table against a red backdrop on which there is a coat of arms and inscriptions in Latin and Dutch. He is wearing a black damask doublet decorated with a motif of tendrils and laced together at the front with points. Over that he has a gown with puffed sleeves and a silk shawl collar. His shirt is pleated at the neck. The puffed sleeves and the absence of a flounced edge suggest a date of c. 1535.9 The narrow account book, the seal and the sticks of sealing wax suggest that this is the portrait of a merchant. Scholars and merchants were portrayed in a similar way in the early decades of the 16th century, examples being the portrait of Erasmus by Quinten Massijs,10 and in portraits by Barend van Orley.11. On the evidence of the clothing, the date on the frame, the third digit of which is illegible, should be read as 1535. Unfortunately, the coat of arms has not provided a clue to the sitter’s identity. The inscriptions, which translate as ‘Trust in God’, which was borrowed from St Gregory, are underscored by the man’s gesture of placing his hand on his heart. It is not clear whether the initials ‘A’ and ‘I’ in the Dutch inscription are the sitter’s monogram. There are no convincing grounds for the attribution of this portrait to Jan Mostaert, which was accepted without question when it was made by Friedländer in 1905.12 The structure of the portrait and the broad, rather unrefined manner do not provide any direct connections with the portraits that can be attributed to Mostaert with a reasonable degree of certainty.13 (Jan Piet Filedt Kok)
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