Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?)
This is the only known portrait of a black man in early European painting. He may have served at the Brussels court of Emperor Charles V, who had a black archer called Christophle le More among his bodyguards. The badge of the Virgin on his cap is a souvenir of a pilgrimage to Halle (Brabant), a favourite destination of pilgrims from the Brussels court.
- Rijksmuseum
- painting
- Art of painting
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the VSBfonds, the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rijksmuseum
- painting
- Art of painting
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the VSBfonds, the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- false
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
- c.1525 - c.1530
- first quarter 16th century
- second quarter 16th century
- Mechelen
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.4150
- Haarlem
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.3566
- Haarlem
- …; dealer, Tomas Harris, London, 1920;{Friedländer on photo, RKD, no. 27581} …; Dr Hans Wendland, Lugano, 1924;{Friedländer on photo, RKD, no. 27581}...; dealer, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 1924;{Friedländer on photo, RKD, no. 27581} from whom to Sir Thomas D. Barlow G.B.F. (1883-1964), London, 1934;{Manchester 1968, p. 20, no. 8} his son, Basil Stephen Barlow (1918-91), London;{Manchester 1968, p. 20, no. 8} from his heirs on loan to Kenwood House, London, 1998-2003;{Filedt Kok/De Winkel 2005, p. 406} from whom, through Simon C. Dickinson Ltd, London, to the dealer Rob Noortman, Maastricht, 2004;{Filedt Kok/De Winkel 2005, p. 406} from whom, € 600,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the VSBfonds, the Stichting Rijksmuseum and the BankGiro Loterij, 2005
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.431086
- SK-A-4986
- height 30.8 cm
- width 21.2 cm
- height 30 cm
- width 20.3 cm
- oak (wood)
- oil paint (paint)
- nl
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
- Netherlands
- 2014-05-27T20:16:48.256Z
- 2018-03-17T14:38:13.648Z