Portrait of a Man in Profile
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (33.7 x 26.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Accession Number
32.100.99
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About this artwork
This enigmatic portrait depicts an unidentified man in strict profile, painted around 1525 by an Italian artist whose identity remains uncertain. The work measures approximately thirteen by eleven inches in oil on panel and presents the sitter against a plain background, rendered with the precise contours and formal dignity characteristic of early sixteenth-century profile portraiture. The attribution has proven difficult, as the painting combines elements that suggest both Italian and Northern ...