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This painting shares many characteristics with the artist's other paintings: the meticulous treatment of the details in the elegant suit - particularly, the exquisite rendering of the lace in the collar and cuffs, the hilt of the sword, the scabbard, and the leather belt - the glossy, compact application of colour, and the darting highlights alternating with dense shadows to give a firm cast to the solid face and splendid hands of the young man. The influence of Caravaggesque painting is evident in the realistic depiction of the face.
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