Portrait of Dom Martin Tirant.

Oil on panel, 43 x 32 cm, unsigned (some sm. lacunes and cracks, old varnish, darkened traces of old smaller frame at edges).

In 19th-c. wooden gilt frame.

Official portrait of Martin Tirant, abbot of the abbey of Clairmarais between 1615 and 1621. On the left his coat of arms is depicted with the motto "De Deus Mihi Scopius". The text in capitals at the upper right corner reads "D. Martin Tirant/estoit le 44e abbé/de Clermaret et/le premier mytré/trespasa le 6/ doctobre/1621". A copy of this portrait is now preserved in the Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin at St Omer (inv. 0202 CM).
Ref. G. Blazy, "Catalogue des peintures, Saint-Omer, Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin", 1981, nº 368, p. 113.