Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (Dutch, 1500–1559). <em>Portrait of Jean de Carondelet</em>, ca. 1530. Oil on panel, 30 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (78.1 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Horace O. Havemeyer, 47.76 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.76_framed_SL3.jpg)

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (Dutch, 1500–1559). Portrait of Jean de Carondelet, ca. 1530. Oil on panel, 30 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (78.1 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Horace O. Havemeyer, 47.76 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.76_framed_SL3.jpg)

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Jean de Carondelet was a well-known and wealthy cleric and statesmen in his time, in 16th century Flanders. He commissioned several portraits by prominent Netherlandish painters like Vermeyen who was also the court painter of Austria-Hungary at the time.

Portrait of Jean de Carondelet

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen

European Art

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen demonstrates his keen sense of observation by faithfully capturing his sitter, an influential Catholic cleric and statesman, at age sixty, paying equal attention to the topography of his face and the textures of the luxurious dark fur and fabric of his clothing. The artist animates Jean de Carondelet’s stern and blocky figure by enlivening the hands, one of which firmly grasps a pair of gray leather gloves, while the other contorts in an enigmatic gesture.

ARTIST Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, Dutch, 1500–1559

MEDIUM Oil on panel

Place Made: Europe

DATES ca. 1530

DIMENSIONS 30 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (78.1 x 62.2 cm) frame: 42 × 36 × 4 in. (106.7 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS European Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 47.76

CREDIT LINE Gift of Horace O. Havemeyer

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CAPTION Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (Dutch, 1500–1559). Portrait of Jean de Carondelet, ca. 1530. Oil on panel, 30 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (78.1 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Horace O. Havemeyer, 47.76 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.76_framed_SL3.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 47.76_framed_SL3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015

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