- Artist or Maker
- Otto van Veen
Northern Netherlands, 1556-1629, active Southern Netherlands - Title
- Portrait of Alessandro Farnese (1545-1592)
- Date Made
- circa 1585
- Medium
- Oil heightened with gold on copper
- Dimensions
- Canvas: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm)
Framed: 11 7/8 x 9 x 1 1/8 in. (30.2 x 22.9 x 2.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Art Museum Council Fund, anonymous donors, The Broad Art Foundation, Marilyn and Calvin Gross, Alice and Nahum Lainer, Lenore and Richard Wayne, Suzanne and David Booth, Ann Colgin and Joseph H. Wender, Marc and Eva Stern Foundation, Christopher V. Walker, Myron Laskin, Barbara Guggenheim and Virginia and William M. Carpenter through the 2003 Collectors Committee
- Accession Number
- M.2003.69
- Collecting Area
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Selected Bibliography
- Lattuada, Riccardo, ed. Alessandro Farnese: un Grande Condottiero in Miniatura: Il Duca di Parma e Piacenza Ritratto da Jean de Saive = Alessandro Franese: a Miniature Portrait of the Great General: the Duke of Parma and Piacenza Portrayed by Jean de Saive. Milan: Formec Biffi, 2016.
