
Portrait of a Stout Man
Portrait of a Fat Man (or Portrait of a Stout Man or Portrait of Robert de Masmines) are names given to two near-identical oil on panel paintings attributed to the Early Netherlandish artist Robert Campin. Both versions are dated c. 1425 and are in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
The Madrid panel was in a Belgian private collection and not widely known until 1957. The panels were first exhibited alongside each other at the National Gallery, London, in 1961. The panels are considered of equal quality and by the same hand, i.e. one is not a workshop copy of the other. However, the existence of two near-identical paintings from such an early and renowned master has excited art historians as to their commission, dating, and provenance.
The portraits are renowned for their close and realistic observation of the subject's features. They lack any attempt at flatte…
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