. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. R (Panel) Height, 9% inches; width, 7 inches The figure of a man is shown as far as the waist, facingthree-quarters to the right; the hands, as they hold anopen hook, resting on the top of a slab of stone. Thehead is covered with grayish white hair of nearly thesame tone as the background. The eyes are brown andpiercing, beneath finely penciled arched brows; the noseis strong and thick; the mouth small and firmly set, andthe chin and jaw are noticeably large and full. A whitecollar, with a black edge, is fastened abo
. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. R (Panel) Height, 9% inches; width, 7 inches The figure of a man is shown as far as the waist, facingthree-quarters to the right; the hands, as they hold anopen hook, resting on the top of a slab of stone. Thehead is covered with grayish white hair of nearly thesame tone as the background. The eyes are brown andpiercing, beneath finely penciled arched brows; the noseis strong and thick; the mouth small and firmly set, andthe chin and jaw are noticeably large and full. A whitecollar, with a black edge, is fastened above the red bor-der of what appears to be a black robe. There are alsotraces of the coat having had a brown fur collar, butthe picture is in bad condition. On the slab are in-scribed three couplets in Latin hexameter and pentameterverse. The first is as follows: Cernis ut invicto dederat natura LuthcroFlammantes oculos, oraquc plena Deo, which may be translated: To Luther, unconquered, thou secst how nature had givenEyes charged with flames and countenance full of the No. 3PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN BY ANTON VAN DYCK ANTON VAN DYOK Flemish: 1599—1641 No. 3—PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN (Panel) Height, !):; | inches; width, 7::,s inches Painted in golden brown tones, the figure of a youngman is shown to a little below the waist, slightly in-clined to the right. His hair curls low on the foreheadand falls in cavalier ringlets over the ears. Fittingclose under the chin is a broad linen collar, edged withspikes that spread over the tunic. The latter lias slashedsleeves, disclosing undersleeves of lawn with lace sash surrounds the waist, and from the left shouldera bandolier crosses the chest. On this the young manholds his right hand, with the fingers elegantly splayed,while his left hand grasps a truncheon. The backgroundis composed of drapery.
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Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidsoutpang00am, bookyear1916
