Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1576. Creator: Tobias Stimmer.

Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1576. Creator: Tobias Stimmer.

3-043-998 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1576. Additional Info: This middle-aged, as-yet-unidentified sitter wears the relatively unadorned costume of a burgher. A doublet buttons up his front to a high, ruffled collar. As interiors were poorly heated at this time, it became the fashion to keep hats on indoors as well as out, so a low, soft bonnet covers his head. After lightly outlining the form in black chalk, Tobias Stimmer drew in the face and beard in pen and brown ink and finally worked over the entire figure in black ink. His bold, fractured hatching lends a powerful sculptural quality to the hands. In the face, his strong linework, working together with the luminosity of the white of the paper, produces a powerful, forthright expression. The eyes, with their large, arresting irises, are particularly striking. Scholars assume that the drawing was made as an independent work of art as they can identify no existing painting or prints.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Tobias Stimmer: Swiss: Artist, painter, printmaker, wood engraver, draughtsman, designer

Medium
  1. Pen and black and brown ink over black chalk

Picture Type
  1. Artwork
  2. Drawing

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Fashion & Dress

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 9105x12449
File Size : 332,075kb


Aliases

  1. 92.GA.102
  1. 103R6S
  1. 1200007811
  1. 3-043-998
  1. 3043998
  1. 92.GA.102

Buy a Print  

Keywords - refine your search by combining multiple keywords below.

This site uses cookies. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the site to operate and have already been set. We use a Google Analytics script which sets cookies.You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work.To find out more about cookies on this website, see our privacy policy.
I accept cookies from this site