On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P02644
- Author
- El Greco (Spanish)
- Title
- A Trinitarian Friar
- Chronology
- Ca. 1610
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 35 cm x 26 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- LEGADO
- Procedence
- Legacy of Pablo Bosch y Barrau, 1916
A portrait of a friar wearing the
habit of the Trinitarian Order,
with a dark background.
This work's small format and the
fact that it is unsigned indicate
that it may have been a study for a
larger portrait that is now
lost.
El Greco painted numerous similar
portraits of friends and leading
figures in Toledo at that time.
Normally he depicted them on a dark
background, lit by a single light
source that emphasizes the almost
pure white tones and the sitters'
faces.
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