Pontormo

Carucci, Jacopo

Florentine, 1494 - 1556/1557

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A light-skinned man with short, auburn-brown hair and a long beard is shown from the hips up, his chest and sloping shoulders covered by a muted cobalt-blue cape in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left and he looks at us from the corners of his brown eyes under curving, low brows. His head, torso, aquiline nose, and hands are slightly elongated. He holds a black hat in his right hand, on our left, close to his body. His left hand emerges from a white sleeve painted with swirling brushstrokes, as he presses a small book to his chest, holding it open with one page caught between thumb and index finger. The lower edge of his cape drapes over that arm, revealing rose-pink lining. He stands with his back to a grayish-green wall that does not span the width of the composition. Slivers of other spaces, possibly rooms, are suggested by tall, narrow views of windows and arched openings along the sides of the painting.
Pontormo, Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83

Monsignor della Casa

Pontormo · probably 1541/1544 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.83

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Antique Bas Relief and Allegory of the Conquest of Fiandra

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 1773 · etching and aquatint ·  Accession ID  1950.1.118.236