Portrait Of A Venetian Merchant Holding Money And A Skull, 16th Century Venetian School

Portrait of a Venetian Merchant Holding Money and a Skull, 16th CenturyVenetian SchoolLarge Old Master portrait, 16th-century Italian school, depicting a Venetian merchant holding money in one handle and a skull in the other. Half-length portrait of a Venetian merchant holding money in one handle and a skull in the other. The sitter, wearing a felt magicerka hat and dressed primarily in black, the dominant fashion of the late Renaissance, has before him a handful of banknotes resting against his skull, a vanity and a promise of death. A pensive portrait expressed by the sitter's humble face, as if contemplating the futility of wealth, painted at the height of the Venetian Republic. Presented in an antique gilt frame. Unsigned. Dimensions: approximately 90 cm x 76 cm, framed