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The image shows a colored portrait of a man in a bust view, facing to the right. He has a bald head with gray hair around the sides, a beard, pointed nose, and high cheekbones. He wears an ornate outfit with a white ruffled collar, a black undergarment, and a red outer garment trimmed with brown fur. There are black embellishments on his sleeve. The portrait is in an elaborate frame with floral and scroll motifs in red, gold, blue, and green. The frame includes a round emblem with the letters "IHS" or a similar symbol at the top. A Latin inscription is below the oval frame. The background is off-white paper, slightly discolored with age at the corners.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Abraham Ortelius (Wortels)
Philip Galle
- Medium
- hand-colored engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 32.4 × 21.5 cm (12 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Classification
- Print · Historical Portrait
- Accession number
- 1950.14.950
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Flemish
Provenance
Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.
NGA object ID 38588. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.