Portrait of a Seated Youth
by PENCZ, Georg, Oil on wood, 91 x 70 cm
Pencz was above all a portrait painter, although he is remembered mostly for the tiny engravings which still place him among the ranks of the so-called German ‘small masters’. In this work Pencz presents a vigorous image of a young man, painting full of of plastic force and psychological tension, and one that reveals the importance which portrait-painting had in that period of German art which we could call late Renaissance.