Portrait of a Young Man
Technical Details
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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.