Portrait of a Man
about 1490
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 21 × 16 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-197920
The tradition of portraying male sitters, bust-length, at a three-quarter view, was particularly resonant in Venice and the *Veneto* region during the Renaissance. With his bold traits and grave stance, this figure is characteristic of the types featured by Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna. Short strokes of hatching record the contours of the sitter's face and simultaneously soften it by surrounding it in shadow.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1490 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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