Animates the space around the figure with light and atmosphere.

Conveys the softness of facial flesh, carefully rendering individual features.

Accurately captures the musculature around the eyes with great subtlety.

Individualizes the curls of hair.

Convincingly portrays the subject's three-dimensionality, padded jacket and all.

Details of costumes are sharp, including banderole over the subject's shoulder and gleam of light across the metal breastplate.

Less successful in enveloping the figure in its surrounding space.

Has hard, chiseled features that don't convey bones and tendons beneath the skin.

Takes shortcuts in describing some features.

Curls more crudely rendered; painter used the butt end of the brush to scratch curls in the hair.

Less successful in showing the brocade at the bottom of his cloak and the chain around the neck.