Spanish school of the first half of the 17th century.
"Portrait of a gentleman.
Oil on copper.
It presents original frame in iron and bronze.
Measurements: 6,5 x 5 x 0,5 cm.
This miniature of octagonal format represents a gentleman dressed in the fashion of the beginning of the 17th century. As in the rest of Europe, in the 19th century portraiture became the leading genre par excellence in Spanish painting, as a consequence of the new social structures, embodying the maximum expression of the transformation of the taste and mentality of the new bourgeois clientele. This genre embodies the permanent presence of the image of its protagonists, to be enjoyed in the intimacy of a studio, in the daily warmth of a family cabinet or presiding over the main rooms of the house.