Portrait of a Young Man

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Download hi-res image TITLE Portrait of a Young Man
AUTHOR Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
DATE c. 1565
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS cm 115 x 85
INVENTORY 211
ROOM XIX
Work on display

This painting, with its chequered history of attributions, can be dated c. 1565 thanks to a comparison with the Portrait of an Old Man and a Boy in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the two works sharing a similar modelling of the young man’s face with its very marked features. The attire is aristocratic and the pose characteristically “scornful” – self-assured, haughty and detached – in keeping with a style invented by Titian and subsequently adopted in numerous 16^th century Venetian portraits.