Antonis Mor

Mor, Anthonis
Moro, Antonio
Mor van Dashorst, Antonis
Netherlandish, 1519 - 1576

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Shown from the thighs up against a dark background, a man with light skin, wearing a black satin jerkin with puffed breeches, stands with his hand on the neck of a dog by his side in this vertical portrait painting. The man stands with his body angled to our right but looks at us from the corners of his dark eyes. His brows are subtly raised, and his cheeks are slightly sunken under high cheekbones. His red hair is cut short, and his red mustache and beard are trimmed. The high collar of his black jacket is lined with a white ruffle along his chin line. Light from our left glints off the long sleeves of his tight-fitting jacket, creating the impression that it is made of heavy silk. Two thick gold chains hang down his chest, and a sword hangs from a belt around his waist, the hilt on the hip farther from us. His pants puff out and gather on the mid-thigh over stockings. He hooks the thumb of his right hand, on our left, around his hip and he rests his other hand on the neck of the dog standing by his left side, to our right. The dark brown dog has a white stripe down its nose. It faces our left in profile but its brown eyes look toward us. On the collar, ornate metal bosses alternate with low spikes, set in a wide black band. A ring hangs from the front of the collar. Barely legible, the painting is signed and dated in the upper left corner with dark paint: “Antonius mor pingebat a. 1569.”
Antonis Mor, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1569, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.52

Portrait of a Gentleman

Antonis Mor · 1569 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.52
Shown from the thighs up, a man with pale, peachy skin looks at us in front of a dark gray background in this vertical portrait painting. His body and head angle to our right so he looks out of the corners of his brown eyes under dark, cocked brows. He has a rounded nose, flushed cheeks, the suggestion of a goatee, and his full, pale pink lips are closed. His face is nestled in a narrow froth of lace that lines the top of the high collar of his pale yellow jerkin. Eight iron-gray buttons line the front of the collar and continue down onto the chest. The jerkin is slashed vertically down the front and both short, cap sleeves. A black belt fits tightly around his narrow waist and a sword hangs from the far hip. The long sleeves under the jerkin are charcoal gray, as are the puffy tops of his pants, His right elbow, to our left, is slightly bent as his arm rests by his side. The backs of his other fingers rest in a loose fist against his far hip. A dark triangular form in the lower left corner of the painting could be the corner of a dark table. An inscription to the left of the man’s head reads “AE.S.20 Ao. 1558.”
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Young Man, 1558, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.79

Portrait of a Young Man

Anonymous Artist · 1558 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.79

Bibliography

1604

  • Mander, Karel van. Het Schilder-boeck. Haarlem, 1604.

1928

  • Buchelius, Arnoldus. "Res Pictoriae." In Quellenstudien zur Holländischen Kunstgeschichte. Ed. by G. J. Hoogewerff and J. Q. van Regteren Altena. Vol. 15. The Hague, 1928.

1934

  • De Vries, A. B. Het Noord-Nederlandsch Portret in de Tweede Helft van de 16e Eeuw. Amsterdam, 1934.

  • Marlier, Georges. "Antonis Mor van Dashorst (Antonio Moro)." Académie Royale de Belgique. Classe des Beaux-Arts. Mémoires. Series 2. 3 Fasc. 2 (1934).

1947

  • Frerichs, L. C. J. Antonis Moro. Amsterdam, 1947.

1959

  • Wijburg, W. A., Jr. "Antonie Mor van Dashorst 'vermaard schilder van Utrecht' en zijn naaste familie." De Nederlandsche Leeuw 76 (1959): cols. 230-248.

1967

  • Friedländer 1936, vol. 13 (vol. 13, 1975).

1986

  • Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 202.