ID: 700009608 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009608	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (painting (visual work); Jan van Eyck; 1433; National Gallery (London, Greater London, England, United Ki...; NG222)

Note: The elaborate inscription suggests this painting may be a self portrait. The direction of the man's gaze also suggests this. Van Eyck uses light and shade in a subtle and dramatic way: the sitter seems to emerge from darkness, his face and headdress modelled by the light that falls from the left. The viewer is drawn towards the image by the penetrating gaze of the sitter.

Titles:

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Man in a Red Turban, A (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1433

Creator Display:

Jan van Eyck [preferred]

painter Eyck, Jan van (Netherlandish painter, ca.1390-1441) [500116209]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125190] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: NG222

Display Materials: Oil on oak

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

	oak (wood) [300012264]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: 26 x 19 cm

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	human males [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	busts (general, figures) [300047457]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish painter, ca.1390-1441) [500116209]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	turban [300046127]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), costume accessories, worn costume accessories, <accessories by location on the head>, headgear) (AAT)

Inscriptions: signed and inscribed in an elaborate way on the frame, which is the original. The top inscription, which uses some Greek letters, is a punning allusion to the painter's name: 'Als Ich Can' (as I/Eyck can). The bottom inscription, in Latin, gives the name of the painter and the date: 'Jan van Eyck made me on 21 October 1433'. The letters are painted to look as though they have been carved.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) accessed 20 May 2019)
Man in a Red Turban, A	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971) 289 ff.

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-portrait-of-a-man-self-portrait

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) accessed 20 May 2019