# Portrait of a Seated Youth

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PENCZ, Georg](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on wood, 91 x 70 cm

## Commentary

Pencz was above all a portrait painter, although he is remembered mostly for the tiny engravings which still place him among the ranks of the so-called German &#39;small masters&#39;. In this work Pencz presents a vigorous image of a young man, painting full of of plastic force and psychological tension, and one that reveals the importance which portrait-painting had in that period of German art which we could call late Renaissance.

## Related artworks

- [Angel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/angel-rc134f59a1ab727>)
- [Caritas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/caritas-r60100426bf26ef>)
- [Desiderius Erasmus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/desiderius-erasmus-r01a894b4f60950>)
- [Portrait of a Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/portrait-of-a-man-r927f82ad3b62aa>)
- [Portrait of Count Palatine Ottheinrich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/portrait-of-count-palatine-ottheinrich-r4885923a59d689>)
- [Portrait of Martin Luther](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pencz-georg-r31a420323dd5fb/portrait-of-martin-luther-r1cece591910e1f>)

## Attribution

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