Portrait d'un théologien

The portrait shows a bearded man in a dark robe with a large white ruff, seated in a carved chair and turned slightly toward the viewer. An open manuscript on a desk to his right is filled with dense text, reinforcing his scholarly persona. The color palette is restrained—black, white, and warm browns with a red-orange textile—and the painting displays the precise, textured realism characteristic of Pieter Codde’s Dutch Golden Age portraits.