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Jan van Eyck: Portrait of a Man with a Turban  wikidata:Q2392901 reasonator:Q2392901
Artist
Jan van Eyck  (circa 1390
date QS:P,+1390–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1441)  wikidata:Q102272 q:en:Jan van Eyck
 
Jan van Eyck
Alternative names
Jan van Eyck, Johannes van Eyck
Description Flemish painter, drawer and manuscript illuminator
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata before 9 June 1441
date QS:P,+1441-06-09T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1441-06-09T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Maaseik mk=Масејк Bruges Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
The Hague (1422), Bruges (1425), Lille (1425–1428), Bruges (1431–1441)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q102272
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Self-portrait
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre self-portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

Portrait of a Man

label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di un uomo"
label QS:Lhu,"Férfi portré"
label QS:Let,"Mehe portree"
label QS:Lca,"Retrat d'un home"
label QS:Lcy,"Portread o Ddyn"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um homem"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک مرد"
label QS:Lda,"Portræt af en mand"
label QS:Lro,"Portret de bărbat"
label QS:Lja,"男の肖像"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de un hombre"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret mężczyzny"
label QS:Lvec,"Ritrato de un omo"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een man"
label QS:Lsl,"Moški portret"
label QS:Lru,"Мужской портрет"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d’homme"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Man"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на човек"
label QS:Lcs,"Portrét muže"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Mannes"
(Self-portrait?)
Depicted people Jan van Eyck Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1433
date QS:P571,+1433-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 26 cm (10.2 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,26U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
National Gallery
Accession number
NG222 (National Gallery) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
Inscriptions

Text top:

AΛC.IXH.XAN.
on frame Signature and date bottom:
JOHES.DE.EYCK.ME.FECIT.ANO.MO. CCCCO.33O.2I.OCTOBRIS
[As I can / Jan van Eyck made me on 21 October 1433].
References http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-portrait-of-a-man-self-portrait
Source/Photographer Selected work 1 from Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary (Anthony Bond, Joanna Woodall, ISBN 978-1855143579).
Other versions
  • Yorck project (large size)
    Yorck project (large size)
  • detail of eye
    detail of eye

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Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)", also known as Portrait of a Man in a Turban (1433). Oil on panel, 26 x 19 cm (10.2 x 7.4 in). National Gallery, London

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