Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Joos van Cleve painted this portrait of a man with gloves around 1528, employing the gloves as a conventional attribute of social refinement in Renaissance portraiture. Van Cleve was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Antwerp. The painting is in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Joos van Cleve was a leading Antwerp painter who synthesized Flemish panel painting tradition with Italian Renaissance influence, making him one of the most sought-after Netherlandish masters of his generation.

The portrait demonstrates Van Cleve's mastery of the Antwerp portrait tradition, with precise rendering of the sitter's features and the material textures of gloves and costume.