Portrait of a Man
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2018.6.22.4.FA.PA.1806.FRAuthor:
Jenny BERGER - DESORAS (French, act.1806-1835)Description
Full-length painting of a man.Middle-aged man is posing against a Classical Greco-style wall. He rests his left arm on the wall and holds a black top hat (slightyl behind his back) in the other hand. His royal blue coat is finished with long tails in the back but cut shorter in the front. The white square cut waist-coat shows beneath his coat. He wears a white formal shirt with a high collar. The man wears mustard yellow knee breeches with buttons on the outside of his knees. A golden pocketwatch hangs at his waist. The black and yellow color-blocked boots meet his pants at the knee. The man has taken off his hat for the portrait to reveal his thinning hair, perhaps worn out from years of fashionable wigs.
He stands on a narrow pathway in nature. The background features greenery, a lake, and a mountain.
Materials
Oil on CanvasWood
Origin
1802 – 1806 FranceDimensions
Width : 5.5 cmLength : 44 cm
Height : 54 cm