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Portrait of a Young Man

Technical Details
  • Title
    Portrait of a Young Man
  • Author
    Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
  • Year
    c. 1565
  • Dimensions
    cm 115 x 85
  • Inventory
    211
  • Room
    XIX

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 16th century Venetian portraits.

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