Man With Ruffled Collar
1623
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1623
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man with curly hair and a short beard. He’s wearing a ruffled collar that fans out below his chin. The background is plain, but his collar has tiny lines and dots that create shading. The border around the image has Latin words and numbers, like a label. That’s common in old portraits to mark dates or titles. If you like this style, look up engraving to see how artists used lines to make shadows.
