Untitled
1595
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1595
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1595 paint by Isaac Oliver, a Early Baroque Italian work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This tiny portrait shows a young man in dark clothes against a plain background. His lace collar stands out sharply. The artist used watercolor on vellum—a stiff kind of paper—to paint it. Oliver worked as a miniaturist in Elizabethan England. He often hid tiny details in the background, like a tiny landscape folded in the man’s hand. These details were common in portraits meant to surprise close viewers. See how the lace glows against the dark coat. If you like this, check out work by Oliver, Isaac.
An oval miniature portrait of an unknown man, painted in watercolour and gold on paper by Isaac Oliver around 1595, is mounted on a Mughal album page from the third quarter of the 18th century. The subject is depicted wearing a black coat with a plain white collar against a blue background that includes trees on either side, possibly added later; the paint surface shows minor damage, and the coat may have been retouched. The miniature is framed by an Indian artist in a simulated jewelled gold design within a blue-grey compartment adorned with a radiating leaf pattern, surrounded by multiple…
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