Painting
Maler: Ernst (zugeschrieben) Gottlob
1786
paint
From the collection of Museum of City History Leipzig
Maler: Ernst (zugeschrieben) Gottlob
1786
paint
From the collection of Museum of City History Leipzig
This painting shows a portrait of a man. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The painting is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what people wore back then, and the details in the clothing are pretty specific. The man in the portrait is identified as Hartmann Winckler II. I don't know much about him, but the painting seems to be from a time when portraits were very formal. To learn more about this style of painting, look into the technique of sfumato.
