References Joseph Breck. "Sammlungen: Die Neuerwerbungen des Metropolitan Museum in New York." Der Cicerone 1 (1909), p. 292, attributes it to Bronzino.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 4 (April 1909), p. 69, ill., attributes it to Bronzino.Die Werke Angelo Bronzinos . Strasbourg, 1911, p. XXIV, considers it a replica by Bronzino similar to the version in the Accademia in Florence.Catalogue of Paintings . 3rd ed. New York, 1917, p. 32, as by Bronzino.Agnolo Bronzino, His Life and Works . Cambridge, Mass., 1928, pp. 13, 72–73, pl. 17, calls this portrait probably the original, and dates it about 1542–45.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings . New York, 1940, p. 69, ill.Manieristi toscani . Bergamo, 1944, p. 42, mentions it among the replicas of the Uffizi portrait, which she feels is the original.Il Bronzino . Busto Arsizio, 1960, unpaginated, opp. pl. 90, calls it a replica of the Uffizi portrait.Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School . New York, 1971, p. 203, ill., call it probably derived from a Bronzino portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici painted in 1545 (now possibly no. 28 in the Uffizi); mention fringed curtain and ornamental border probably taken from our "Portrait of a Man" by Salviati (55.14).Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections . Cambridge, Mass., 1972, pp. 36, 515, 605.L'opera completa del Bronzino . Milan, 1973, p. 94, no. 54g, considers it a workshop version of the Uffizi portrait.Burlington Magazine 125 (September 1983), pp. 528, 531–32, 539, no. 21, fig. 10, discusses the numerous versions of this portrait (over 25 examples are listed in his Appendix II) and considers our version to be by "an artist other than Bronzino".in El Greco in Italy and Italian Art . Exh. cat., National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum. Athens, 1995, pp. 266–68, 490, ill.
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