# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MASTER of Flémalle \(Robert Campin\)]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Wood, 40,7 x 28 cm ## Commentary The companion piece of a panel representing a woman, also in the National Gallery in London. It is instructive to compare this portrait with that by the Jan van Eyck of a man wearing a similar red turban. Here, the scarf ends hang down, serving to frame a face in which we read force of character and upon which we can project an inner emotional life. Van Eyck's personage gives much less away. A greater area of the picture is taken up by his red hat than by his face, its three-dimensional bulk is more assertive, it folds and tucks more dramatic. Perhaps the hat was studied at greater length, perhaps on a stand, independently of the sitter and, like a studio still-life, arranged by the painter, knotted and tweaked to present its most picturesque aspect. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin]() - [Holy Trinity]() - [Madonna by a Grassy Bank]() - [Madonna with the Child by a Fireplace]() - [Madonna with the Child \(detail\)]() - [Mérode Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Mérode Altarpiece \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()