Lagasca 36. 28001 Madrid Spain, Espanha
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LOTE 27:
Anonymous Spanish or Flemish 17th century
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Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on metal; 7.8 x 5.8 cm. Possible traces of dating on the obverse. On the back, inscription that could identify the sitter: " Paul Rache.... (?) Von Weg.... (?)".
Miniature painted on metal showing, on the obverse, a gentleman with beard and moustache, dressed in black, hat and gloves and a wide beanie around his neck. The hilt of a sword and a gold ring on a finger of the left hand can be clearly seen. To the right of the face there are two dates, partially erased.
On the back, a name appears in cursive script written in black (Paul, followed perhaps by Rachez, then the word von and behind it a surname). The heraldic shield below the text has an exterior decoration of black and white feathers on one side, red and dark on the other; it is stamped with a helmet in front, composed of a helmet or morion, closed visor and smooth barbera, and is topped by a crown and five feathers. The shield, quartered in cross with central escutcheon, has in the right canton of the chief and in the sinister one of the point some lions rampant in gold on black and in the right one of the point some elements in silver on red, next to a human figure with an element in the hand in the escutcheon. The coat of arms may have been painted during the 18th century.
The black attire was a common element of Spanish fashion throughout Europe imposed by the court of Philip II: it was a symbol of elegance in Burgundy during the 15th century, the monarch establishing this color as "the color" of the Spanish Catholic court (Puritans and Calvinists also made it their own, using it with wool and linen). Philip IV would link himself with this costly dye in order to link himself with his grandfather.
The lechuguilla was the most common collar in Spanish fashion during the second half of the sixteenth century in Europe and during part of the first quarter of the seventeenth century (in 1623, reigning Philip IV, a royal pragmatic prohibiting these collars is enacted with the intention of reducing spending on clothing, since the higher the rank of the individual, the greater and more delicate was this garment). However, it coexisted with the golilla for a while longer, and it is known that the lechuguilla was a common piece in Flanders.
The gola encañonada is an element of male clothing, similar to the ruff, which is represented in countless portraits such as the Portrait of a Gentleman (c. 1618-1623) by Juan Bautista Maíno (Museo Nacional del Prado).
The girded sword could be a British model, specifically one of the so-called gilled swords, a type that curiously was only produced in that country between 1635/40-1660, approximately, which, if true, would delay the chronology of this miniature.
As for the wide-brimmed hat, common in the 17th century, it would be similar to the one that appears in the portrait of Philip IV (c. 1631-1632) by Diego Velázquez (National Gallery of London).
If the clothing painted in this work would be the usual attire for an upper-class man during the reign of Philip III, the miniature may have been made at a later date.
| Medidas: | 5.8 x 7.8 cm |
