Portrait of a Man in Profile
This enigmatic portrait is difficult to place geographically and has few, if any, stylistic parallels. It was previously attributed to the Lombard school, largely because of its Italian pure profile format, but its technique appears to be Northern European. In the 1520s such portraits became fashionable in Augsburg, where the Imperial Habsburg court had close ties with Lombardy, and an attribution of the present work to a painter in that town seems most prudent.
Artwork Details
- Title: Portrait of a Man in Profile
- Artist: ? Italian Painter (ca. 1525)
- Medium: Oil on wood
- Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (33.7 x 26.7 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
- Object Number: 32.100.99
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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Italian Painter
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)
ca. 1528
Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)
ca. 1470
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
ca. 1524–26
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
1530s
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