The Numeral Playing Cards of the Master of Playing Cards

A 15th-century engraving or woodcut depicting a standing young man in highly ornate, fashionable attire of the period. He is positioned in the center, standing on a patch of grass. His garment is covered in multiple tiers of "dagging"—decorative, leaf-shaped scalloped edges—resembling oak leaves. This leaf motif extends to his cap and a long sleeve or stole hanging from his right arm. He wears a thin belt with a small pouch or purse suspended from it. To the man's left is a stag with large, stylized antlers, standing in profile. The composition and symbolic elements (the stag and leaf patterns) suggest this may be a figure from a set of playing cards, specifically representing the "Ober" (Upper Knave) of the suit of Leaves or Stags. The background is plain.