3615974 Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, 1617 () by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 44.6x24.8 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: black, red, and white chalk, blue pastel, and pen and brown and black ink on light brown laid paper Nicolas Trigault was a Flemish Jesuit missionary to China, visiting Antwerp to raise funds and recruit new missionaries. The costume combines a Korean cap and the robe of a Chinese scholar, conveying the Jesuits??desire to assimilate into Chinese culture while at the same time acknowledging and keeping a certain distance from it. ); Flemish, out of copyright.