What is in the hand of the man standing in the middle of the painting above? ?

Sorry for this being late.

I think next time you need to send an image that goes with your question. Reason for this.. I don't what painting you could be talking about. There could be upon thousands of paintings with a man holding something while standing. So next time with a type of question like this, send an image of the painting. This will allow others to help you instead of having a person (like me) asking where the heck the painting?

And if you want, edit this with the painting attached so I can try to help you.

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