COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
TFC_.Memling.68-1-169
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TFC_.Memling.68-1-169
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
1999
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1999
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Paintings
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Paintings
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Memling, Hans
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Memling, Hans
Creator Name
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Creator Nationality:
European; Flemish
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European; Flemish
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
c.1440-1494
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c.1440-1494
Creator Dates/Places
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Creator Name-CRT:
Hans Memling
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Hans Memling
Creator Name-CRT
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Title:
Portrait of a Man
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Portrait of a Man
Title
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View:
Full View
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Full View
View
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Creation Date:
c. 1470
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c. 1470
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
1460
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1460
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
1480
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1480
Creation End Date
false
Materials and Techniques:
oil on panel
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oil on panel
Materials and Techniques
false
Dimensions:
13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (33.5 x 23.2 cm.)
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13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (33.5 x 23.2 cm.)
Dimensions
false
AMICA Contributor:
The Frick Collection
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The Frick Collection
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
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New York, New York, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
68.1.169
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68.1.169
ID Number
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Credit Line:
Purchased
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Purchased
Credit Line
false
Rights:
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<a href="http://www.frick.org"target="_new">http://www.frick.org</a>
Rights
false
Context:
The thriving trade centers of the Netherlands provided an international market for talented artists such as Memling. However, the plain coat worn by the subject of this portrait offers no clue to his nationality, occupation, or rank. The serious, firmly modeled head suggests a man who was not only forceful but thoughtful. Although he is physically placed close to the viewer, his body pressed against the frame, he appears aloof and removed from the world. Panels such as this often served as covers or wings for small private altarpieces, but it seems probable that the Frick example, like many others dating from the second half of the fifteenth century, was commissioned as an independent painting. Memling was one of the most admired portraitists of his day,in Italy as well as in Northern Europe, owing both to his skill in capturing physical likenesses and to his even rarer gift of conveying, as in this portrait, the intellectual and spiritual character of his subjects.
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The thriving trade centers of the Netherlands provided an international market for talented artists such as Memling. However, the plain coat worn by the subject of this portrait offers no clue to his nationality, occupation, or rank. The serious, firmly modeled head suggests a man who was not only forceful but thoughtful. Although he is physically placed close to the viewer, his body pressed against the frame, he appears aloof and removed from the world. Panels such as this often served as covers or wings for small private altarpieces, but it seems probable that the Frick example, like many others dating from the second half of the fifteenth century, was commissioned as an independent painting. Memling was one of the most admired portraitists of his day,in Italy as well as in Northern Europe, owing both to his skill in capturing physical likenesses and to his even rarer gift of conveying, as in this portrait, the intellectual and spiritual character of his subjects.
Context
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Related Document Description:
New York, The Frick Collection. Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts [cat.]. Comp. C. Ryskamp, et al., 1996, p.46 (reproduced in color).
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New York, The Frick Collection. Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts [cat.]. Comp. C. Ryskamp, et al., 1996, p.46 (reproduced in color).
Related Document Description
false
Related Image Identifier Link:
TFC_.memling.68-1-169.tif
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TFC_.memling.68-1-169.tif
Related Image Identifier Link
false