GOSSART, Jan
(b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)

Portrait of a Man

c. 1530
Oil on oak panel, 28 x 23 cm
Staatliche Museen, Kassel

This elegantly dressed gentleman is portrayed before a green background. He displays a cartouche with the Latin phrase TV MICHI / CAUSA / DOLORIS (You are the cause of my pain). A possible identification of the sitter is Janus Secundus (1511-1536), the poet and humanist author who worked for Margaret of Austria.




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