Portrait of a Young Man
c. 1475/1479
Medium
tempera and oil on poplar panel
Dimensions
overall: 33 x 24.8 cm (13 x 9 3/4 in.) framed: 62.2 x 56.2 x 14 cm (24 1/2 x 22 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-R
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1937.1.31
About the Artist
Attributed to Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina, born Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio around 1430 in Messina, Sicily, was the son of a sculptor, Giovanni de Antonio Mazonus, under whom he received his early training. The bustling port city of Messina exposed him to diverse influences, and by around 1450, he apprenticed in Naples under the painter Niccolò Colantonio, whose workshop housed Netherlandish works by Jan van Eyck...