Artwork Details
Unknown
21-1/4 x 17-5/8 in.
Accession NumberGiven in memory of Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color PaletteTo Walter Tschuppik, Vienna, Austria, by inheritance from his grandfather;{1} (Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, Munich, Germany); acquired by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1959 (59.24.) {1} See correspondence from Böhler to David G. Carter, dated 1 April , 1959 (IMA Archive TAB 2008.15.)
This sensitively rendered portrait captures the likeness of an unidentified Knight of St. Michael. The golden badge of the Order, which shows the Archangel slaying a dragon, is suspended by a black ribbon from his neck.
The work of this unknown painter anticipates a tendency in late 16th-century French portraiture to forsake the detailed naturalism of Clouet and Corneille de Lyon in favor of a more linear, stylized manner. Clouet's portrait of another Knight of St. Michael, François de Scepeaux, was painted just four years earlier.
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