Portrait of a Man
Artist
Isaack Luttichuijs
(Dutch, 1616 - 1673)
Date1663
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 44 1/2 x 38 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. (113 x 97.2 x 7.9 cm)
Image: 37 1/4 x 31 in. (94.6 x 78.7 cm)
Image: 37 1/4 x 31 in. (94.6 x 78.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN262
In 1981, the museum reunited this long-separated pair of portraits by purchasing the female pendant to the male portrait already in the collection. That the two paintings were made as a pair is confirmed by the continuous landscape that unites the two images. The paintings may have been commissioned to commemorate a marriage. Hunting was a metaphor for the pursuit of love, and the man holds a spear, while the woman offers him a beautiful pink rose, an emblem of love, as his prize.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 14, Wall East
c. 1740s
first quarter of the 1700s
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