Artwork Details
18 x 15-7/8 in. (panel) 27-1/8 x 25 in. (framed)
Accession NumberGift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color PaletteA.S. Drey Co., September 1912. Mrs. Marshall Field (Delia Spencer) [d.1937], Washington, District of Columbia; inherited by Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis, Indiana, given the the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1938. Provenance research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. If you have questions, or if you have information to share with us, please contact info@discovernewfields.org.
The elderly man in this portrait is consulting a book that shows different types of coins, indicating that he is either a coin collector or a money changer. Though the motif of the coin had suggested miserliness and vice since the Renaissance, there is no trace of such moralization here.
Pot is best known as a painter of small-scale genre scenes and portraits, usually of single figures seated at a table. His later works, including this one, are influenced by Rembrandt’s treatment of light and his sensitive characterization of human subjects.
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