A young officer is depicted in profile in this intimate oval portrait, rendered in oil on panel by the Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Cornelisz. Duyster. The subject is shown wearing the fashionable military attire of the early seventeenth century, with Duyster's skilled brushwork capturing the textures of fabric and the subtle play of light across the figure. The oval format lends the work an elegant, refined quality characteristic of portrait miniatures of the period.