JACOPO DA VALENZA
(active 1485-1509 in the Veneto)

Portrait of a Young Man

c. 1495
Oil on panel, 36 x 27 cm
Private collection

The picture shows the portrait of an unidentified young man, bust length, in a red cap. The sitter wears his hair long, to the shoulders, with a slight wave, and a straight, manicured fringe at eyebrow level, a fashion popular among young men in Venice in the mid-1490s.




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