# Portrait of a Gentleman with a Falcon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ABBATE, Niccolò dell']() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 140 x 117 cm ## Commentary The portrait shows a gentleman, half length, wearing a black coat with grey sleeves and a hat, a falcon perched on his finger. Niccolò dell'Abbate was associated with the Mannerist movement which was virtually a European court style in the first half of the sixteenth century. It was in the newly independent genre of landscape that dell'Abbate made his most enduring contribution to the history of Western art. In portraiture he was a canny observer of the interior life of his subjects, managing to suggest something of the uniqueness of their psychology. The north Italian aristocrat portrayed here has an almost indecisive air at odds with his masterful pose and sporty regalia. ## Related artworks - [Chimney breast]() - [Chimney breast]() - [Death of Eurydice]() - [Decoration \(detail\)]() - [Decoration]() - [Man with Parrot]() - [Meeting of Charles V and the Bey of Tunis]() - [Moses Rescued from the Nile]() - [Orlando Furioso scenes \(detail\)]() - [Orlando Furioso scenes \(detail\)]() - [Stag Hunt]() - [The Continence of Scipio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()