Original 16th-century Renaissance portrait, oil on wood panel, German school, circa 1590, measuring approximately 10 × 7.5 inches (25.4 × 19.1 cm). This painting comes from the Marcel Gibrat Collection—my grandfather—who was a professional restorer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and later operated a private Madison Avenue gallery in New York, dealing in art and antiquities with a focus on European material. Public references to his career and collection can be found by searching “Marcel Gibrat Collection” online. 

The portrait depicts a bearded male sitter against a restrained landscape background, executed with period-appropriate brushwork, earthy pigments, and modeling consistent with late-Renaissance German portraiture. The panel retains an old, well-made wooden lattice backing, entirely wood, consistent with early mounting or stabilization practices. The paint surface shows extensive age-appropriate craquelure, wear, patina, and scattered losses, all clearly visible in the photographs and consistent with a work of this age. No modern signature or later attribution is present. 

An old handwritten gallery price label of $1200 remains on the reverse, likely dating to the mid-1980s during Gibrat’s gallery period and offered as part of the object’s historical context rather than as a current valuation. 

The painting is uncleaned, unrestored, and presented exactly as found, suitable for collectors of early European painting or further scholarly evaluation.