# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SLINGELAND, Pieter Cornelisz. van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on copper, 9 x 6 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Man c. 1680 Oil on copper, 9 x 6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The sitter of this fine small portrait on copper wears a "Japanese robe." This type of garments, which were usually made of Chinese or Indian silk, were imported mostly from Japan to the Netherlands by the East India Company \(VOC\) and are shown often in fashionable portraits of men, and in genre interiors dating from about 1665 onward. An almost identical robe and scarf are seen, for example, in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/man/chess\_pl.html'\)" href="/html/m/man/chess\_pl.html">The Chess Players</a> of about 1670 by Cornelis de Man. ## Related artworks - [A Tailor's Workshop]() - [Breakfast of a Young Man]() - [Johan Hulshout]() - [Johannes van Musschenbroeck and His Wife]() - [Lady with a Pet Dog]() - [Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose]() - [The Violist]() - [Woman by Candlelight]() - [Woman with Pet Dog]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()