Gallery label:
[br]Ludger tom Ring's output consists almost entirely of still lifes and portraits of stolid German burghers and their families. The man portrayed in this work is a doctor, a fact clearly conveyed by the books in his library, authored by Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius and others. The inclusion of a skull and an hourglass, common in Northern Renaissance portrai...
Size:
16-3/8 x 11-3/8 in
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Public Domain, Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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