Portrait of a Man
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall 40 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (103.5 x 80 cm); painted surface 40 3/4 x 31 1/8 in. (103.5 x 79.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. J. E. Spingarn, 1957
Accession Number
57.30.1
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Art Historical Context
Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Elder’s *Portrait of a Man* (1648), an oil-on-canvas masterpiece measuring over 40 inches tall, captures the refined elegance of mid-17th-century portraiture. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings department, this work exemplifies the Dutch-born artist’s mastery after decades working in England. Jonson, active from the 1610s onward, specialized in lifelike depictions of the English elite, blending Flemish precision with a touch of grandeur inspired by Anthony van Dyck. Painted amid the turmoil of the English Civil War—just a year before K...