Portrait of a Young Man with a Skull
c. 1519
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 18.6 × 14.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-221914
Dressed in exceptionally fine attire––fancy plumes, brocade collar, and slashed sleeves––this young man solemnly points at a skull he is carrying in his cloak. The juxtaposition of the skull and the lavish clothing is a message that frivolous pleasures are misguided and the bravado of youth is ephemeral.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, 1941.297
Registry history
- c. 1519 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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