Author: Rembrandt
Date: 1631
Museum, Frick Collection (New York)
Features: 116 x 87 cm.
Material: Oil on canvas
Style: Work done in 1631, after settling in Amsterdam after the death of his father. Rembrandt is to become the preferred portraitist of the most important class of town for accurate representations of the models. In this case the trader is portrayed in all their finery, elegantly dressed in his fur and his collar, perfectly capturing the model's face, giving us also your personality, your soul. As a good portrait is, Rembrandt does not stop at the surface, in the portrait is merely descriptive, but delves into the psychology of the character so that, through the portrait, we know more intimately portrayed. Why faces light up with a powerful light bulb, from the left, leaving the rest in darkness and cut the figure on a neutral background, thereby producing the effect of third dimension. The effects of light and shadow and dark colors remind tenebrism Caravaggio and his school, while the way to make the picture shows some influence of Titian and Tintoretto. The quality of the fabrics, obtained with a small fine brush, make this portrait one of the best in its first stage.
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