Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Anthonis Moor van Dashorts, known as Anthony Moor (Utrecht 1519 - Antwerp 1576) follower
Portrait of aristocrat in Renaissance attire
Oil on canvas
46 x 32 cm - 65 x 53 cm (with frame)
Provenance: Isbilya Seville June 22, 2022 (as 17th-century Italian painter € 7,200)
17th-18th century
The proposed fine portrait, effigying a gentleman dressed in Renaissance fashion, is historically and culturally to be placed in the production of the best Flemish portrait school. In particular, the stylistic models from which our skilful author must have been active are those of the painter Sir Anthonis van Dashorst Mor (1517/ 1576), one of the most influential portrait painters of his generation and a great interpreter of seventeenth-century Flemish civilization.
Comparisons with some of his specimens are easy, among them the ''Portrait of a Gentleman'' (Christie's London, 4/24/98, lot 44, https://rkd.nl/images/46840) attributed to Moro and which at first impression would portray precisely our effigy. Also, similar in style and composition, the ''Manly Portrait'' (Lempertz, Cologne 1907-11-18,lot 32, https://rkd.nl/images/52052), the ''Manly Portrait'' (Mauritshuis, The Hague, https://www.mauritshuis.nl/it/scopri-la-collezione/collezione/559-portrait-of-a-man/) or the ''Manly Portrait, probably Louis of Nassau'' (National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Barcelona, https://rkd.nl/images/203369) also with an effigy almost equal to that of our canvas.
Returning to our painting, a remarkable pictorial proof in the field of portraiture, it portrays a young man of high social standing, immortalized in the most classic Nordic tradition, three-quarter view, with his gaze intensely scrutinizing the viewer. Going into detail, note the meticulous but slight rendering of the facial features, the sharpness of the contours emphasized by the light, and the extraordinary expressive power of the eyes.
He is dressed in an elegant black suit, the favorite color of princes, bourgeois and highly educated Renaissance intellectuals, topped with a high white collar, typical elements of fashionable clothing in the second half of the 16th century.
There are no inscriptions or signs that could lead us to identify the identity of the effigy, but it could also likely be the painter's self-portrait, and such a hypothesis would be supported by comparison with some of the painter's prints, or again with the Self-Portrait kept at the Uffizi Museum in Florence (https://rkd.nl/images/40949) although here immortalized at a more mature age.
With a bearing that is at once haughty yet refined, the author has here condensed many of the characteristic attributes of Van Dashorst Mor's style.
As can be seen from the work under consideration, his style owes much to Italian Renaissance portraiture, although his surfaces are more detailed and polished, in keeping with a style of clear Nordic ancestry. For this reason, the work has probably been linked in the past to the Italian painting sphere (Isbilya Seville Auctions June 22, 2022, as a 17th-century Italian painter, see details in images).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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