French School From The 16th Century Around 1580. Portrait Of A Young Man

Oil on canvas Presented in a beautiful “Cassetta” frame decorated with gold arabesque motifs. Total dimensions: 77 x 63 cm. The frame alone: 55 x 43 cm This handsome young man, aged at most around twenty years old, is dressed in a black velvet doublet and wears a very large piped collar. We can date this portrait from the years 1580-1590 and link it to the productions of the French painter and designer Étienne Dumonstier, born in 1540 in Paris, he died there on October 25, 1603. In the service of royalty since the age of thirteen. He worked for more than fifty years for kings such as Henri II, François II, Charles IX, Henri III and Henri IV and is considered the founder of the Dumonstier School, to whom historians attribute numerous portraits of the second mid-16th century (time when he was at the forefront). Eldest son of Geoffroy Dumonstier, he learned in the workshop of his father, also a painter, as well as in that of François Clouet (1520-1572), whose techniques and manners he adopted. His style differs from that of his two brothers, Pierre and Cosme, because it focuses more on a faithful representation of facial features and their psychological aspect. Beautiful state of conservation. Sold with invoice and certificate