J. Willems : "the Rwandan"

J.Willems, “Portrait of a Rwandan,” oil on canvas mounted on panel, 61 × 50cm, set in a beautiful exotic wood frame adorned with silver moldings, 73 ×63 cm.
Belgian School, circa 1930.
There is a small blemish on the left shoulder; the painting could benefit from cleaning.
This noble portrait of a man proudly wearing traditional attireand, above all, that hairstyle—as strange as it is distinctive—the amasunzu, wornby the nobles and dignitaries of that country at the time, which quickly put uson the trail of the model’s origins.
Painted against a lush landscape of rolling hills and lakes, his penetrating gaze brings the portrait to life.
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