Artist: Jan Gossaert (Mabuse)
Date: 1532
Size: 31 x 41 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Technique: Oil On Panel
Nostrils flaring, lips tight, the man looks firmly ahead. His identity is unknown to us, but as a type he is timeless, and we recognise him as a strong and forceful personality for whom the end justifies the means.The artist GossaertJan Gossaert became a master of the St. Luke’s Guild of painters in Antwerp in 1503. Only a few years later his work would take him from one royal patron to the next throughout all of Europe. The circle of patrons included the Danish King Christian 2. (1481-1559), whose children Gossaert portrayed in a painting that was to be one of the first secular group portraits in art history (Hampton Court, London). The small princes and princesses greet us with gazes full of childish gravity, painted with the same keen sense of the individual personality that characterises the unknown man.Gossaert
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