Portrait of a gentleman represented as a shepherd oil on canvas Flemish school 17th C. relined, restoration, small fault on the pictorial layer attributed to Jan Thomas van Yperen (1617-1678), back with red seal with coat of arms topped by a marquis coronet – probably from a previous collection Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 154 x 193 cm Notes: "The sitters in these portraits were revealed as figures residing in the world of everyday reality, while being portrayed as inhabitants of a more idyllic, less mundane realm. The particular features, self-conscious bearing, and formality of the sitters betrayed their real character, while the "liquefaction" of their silks and satins, their crooks and flowers, and their pleasant idealized surroundings removed them to the domain of artifice and unreality" in KETTERING, Alison McNeil - "The Dutch Arcadia - Pastoral Art and Its Audience in the Golden Age". Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1983.