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This portrait is an early work by Titian. The sitter is Gian Giacomo Bartolotti (1465/70-1530), the scion of a well-known family of physicians active in various towns - Bologna, Cremona and Venice - in northern Italy. Titian shows the half-length figure of the greying, slightly tousled man in his prime against a dark background. Over his crimson velvet jacket which allows his shirt to show, he wears a broad-sleeved black robe. His left hand adorned with two rings grasps a grey stole cast over his left shoulder.
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