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Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)

Painting by Jan van Eyck

Photo: Jan van Eyck · Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped & Resized

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Portrait of a Man is the title given to a small oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, completed in 1433 in Bruges. The inscription at the top of the frame, which is original, contains his motto Als Ich Can was a common autograph for van Eyck. However this is his first known usage of the term, and it is unusually large and prominent. This and the sitter's unusually direct and confrontational gaze have been taken as an indication that the work is a self-portrait.

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