9 / Portraits

• • Portrait of Fath ‘Ali ShahMirza Baba (Persian, active 1789–1810)	James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and ChildSir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)	The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. KentonThomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)	Standing Statue of HatshepsutUnknown artist, Thebes, Egypt	Kuya-Shonin (Saint Kuya)Kosho (Japan, active late 12th–early 13th century)	Henry VIII, King of EnglandHans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) or Workshop
    Andy WarholAlice Neel (American, 1900–1984)	Gertrude SteinPablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)	Portrait HeadMoche artist, Peru	Kennedy Family on beach, Hyannis Port, 1959 (Caroline overhead)Mark Shaw (American, 1922–1969)	Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of OlivaresDiego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)	Diane von FurstenbergAndy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
    Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke OlivaresKehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977).	Royal Portrait Head (“Head of Sargon the Great”)Unknown artist, Nineveh	Lady with Mink and VeilOtto Dix (German, 1891–1969)	Napoleon I on His Imperial ThroneJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)	Memorial HeadAkan artist, Twifo region, Hemang city, Ghana

expert perspective

Stacy Goodman Senior Consultant for Pre-Columbian Art, Sotheby’s

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Portraits are a way of memorializing your status, your personality, your power. It’s a way of fighting your mortality.

The Moche portrait heads of Peru were made for a very specific purpose between 100 and 700 A.D. We know the Moche culture from their art, which is primarily pottery depicting rulers at different stages of their life. We don’t know exactly what they drank out of them. Some people think it was this maize beer. Some people think it could have been sacrificial blood. The Moche loved to portray things in an incredibly realistic way. Part of that are these facial characteristics that they show over and over again. Somebody who has a cut lip, somebody who has a droopy eye, somebody who’s got this massive jaw.

I think Moche heads are about status. They were sending the best portraits they had of their ruler to say he is now dominant. It’s like a huge billboard, he is in command here.”