Portrait of a Man 1570-75
Statens Museum for Kunst
National Gallery of Denmark
El Greco’s Portrait of a Man is painted in his Rome period, before he travelled to Toledo, and on a canvas with a pattern.
High quality photograph of the xray image was kindly sent to me by conservator Troels Filtenborgh from The SMK
while tracing on top of the pattern I noticed differently forms of the overall pattern.
The weave drafts show how these forms were made
below: handwoven reconstructions of the canvas of ‘Portrait of a Man’ El Greco 1570-75, located in the Staten Museum in Copenhagen.
front and back; note where, highlighted in orange, warp threads are vertical on one side they are horizontal on the other side.
for a better visual effect a white warp and blue weft was used
