- Title:
- Portrait of a Young Man
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- We don't know the identity of the young man who gazes directly at us. His elegant costume, fastened so as to almost entirely conceal his white undershirt, and the cloak laid over his left shoulder suggest that he came from a wealthy background. The National Gallery acquired this portrait from the art dealer Stefano Bardini (1854--1922), who was based in Florence.The portrait may be by Biagio d'Antonio. Although he was born in Florence, Biagio spent most of his career in Faenza, working for the ruling Manfredi family. He is best known for paintings made to decorate furniture, but he also produced a number of portraits. One which relates to our picture is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.Biagio’s training in the workshop of the painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio could account for the bust-like character of this portrait. The simple blue background does little to distract from the sitter.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1889-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1889
- Date - latest:
- 1889
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1889
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 372/445/59/mid_N-1299-00-000008.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 56.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.00
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- egg tempera on wood
- Material:
- egg tempera
- Material:
- wood
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Florentine)
- Object production date:
- probably 1475-1500
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1475
- Date - latest:
- 1500
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1450-99
- Date - period:
- 1500-24
- Object production person:
- Italian, Florentine
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Florence
- Other number:
- NG1299
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FLM-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG1299
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03WA-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng31299
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- bust portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 195-6
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 151
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 341
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Holbein and England / Susan Foister.
- Reference details:
- Fig. 217 : p. 216
- Reference type:
- reference
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