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Mrs. M.A.T. Slark

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Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned man is angled slightly to our right with his hands together in prayer in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s slightly bulging blue eyes lift to look up and to the right. Wrinkles line his forehead and the corners of his eyes and lips. His cheeks are hollow, and the temple we see slightly sunken. He has a long nose, bags under his eyes, and his thin lips are pressed together in a line over a pointed chin. Straight brown hair parts to either side of his high forehead and falls to just beneath his ears. His raspberry-red shirt has a high black collar, and a dark, burgundy red scarf drapes over his far shoulder. All of his fingertips touch except for the pinkies, which pass each other to make an X shape. The man is evenly lit against a brown background.
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Donor, c. 1470/1475, oil on hardboard transferred from panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.66

Portrait of a Donor

Anonymous Artist · c. 1470/1475 · oil on hardboard transferred from panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.66

Bibliography

1948

  • Christie's, London, 25 June 1948, no. 67