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Although the chronology of Vittore Carpaccio's work is fairly complex and cannot easily be correlated or compared to the network of influences and trends developed by the other artists active at the time, there is a group of paintings that can undoubtedly be dated at the early 1490s since they are so close stylistically to the Stories from the Life of St Ursula. Among them, the Man with the Red Cap in the Correr Museum in Venice, which has incorrectly been attributed in the past to Lorenzo Lotto, to Filippo Mazzola and to Bartolomeo Montagna.
Standing out with almost sculptural relief from the landscape background, this figure shares the proud expression of the portraits Carpaccio painted of his contemporaries even in the earliest of the St Ursula cycle canvases.
This painting was earlier attributed to Filippo Mazzola or Lorenzo Lotto. The attribution to Carpaccio is generally accepted, however, no documentation exists to prove either of the attributions.
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