Portrait of a Man
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Notes:
- The stiff-brimmed steeple hat over medium-length hair. The collar is small and flat.
- Abstract:
- When the ruff falls, hair is grown into long, soft curls. In the lovelock style, it is tied to one side. Mustaches are thin. Occasionally there is a van Dyck beard which ends in a point. At the beginning of the period the stiff, high-crowned steeple is popular. The Puritans adopt it, adding a plain hatband and austere buckle for decoration. By 1630 the fashionable hat has a low crown and a wide, stiff brim. It is decorated with a jeweled hatband and long ostrich plumes. Eventually losing its stiffness, one side of the brim is fastened to the crown with a brooch. Most hats are black or dark in color. The ruff is seven to nine inches wide, unstarched and drooping. It is replaced by a wide, square collar finished in lace. A small starched ruff or small collar is associated with conservatives throughout the period.
- Associated Names:
- Hals, Frans, b. ca. 1581, d. 1666 [Painter]
- Topics:
- Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Painting -- Netherlands -- 17th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Cavalier
- Culture:
- Dutch
- Accession Number:
- 4391-028
- Genre:
- costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
paintings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Clothing & Accessories
Paintings & Drawings - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Creator:
- Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
- Source Title:
- History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 4
- Source Created:
- New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975 - Call Number:
- GT513 +B87 4 (LC)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- Vienna, Austria: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
- OID:
- 10608584
- PID:
- digcoll:1863555