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- 437
- Added
- Jun 29, 2016
Venetian merchant
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 47 × 29 cm
- Year
- 2016
An elderly bearded man in a ruffed collar and cap holds a scroll, his robe patterned with a miniature Venice canal scene.
- Style
- Decorative
- Mood
- Contemplative
- Themes
- Portrait · Men · Architecture
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- Payment
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- Shipping
Economy: ~1 month
EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
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Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
Framed in an oval, an old man with a long beard, ruffed collar, and domed cap turns in profile, holding a rolled scroll or paper in one hand. His robe is filled with small embedded scenes — a canal lined with buildings and a standing gondolier, a still life of fruit, and a small female figure — alongside an ornamented sword hilt at his waist.
The etching is worked entirely in fine black line, with dense hatching modeling the face's wrinkles and the robe's crowded imagery against deep, velvety black shadow. The combination of a naturalistic portrait head with a densely patterned, narrative-filled costume gives the print a layered, emblematic quality suited to its trade-themed title.
