Portrait of a Young Man
1530s · Oil on wood · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572)
- Year
- 1530s
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Original size
- 95.6 × 74.9 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Renaissance
A young man in a black slashed doublet stands in a grey stone interior, his right hand on his hip and his left resting on a book whose pages he keeps open with a finger, the corner of a table and chair carved with grotesque masks beside him. His pale, composed face and cool, appraising look are typical of the formal style Bronzino brought to Florentine portraiture. The Metropolitan Museum dates the picture to the 1530s, when Bronzino was establishing himself as the leading portraitist in Florence before he became court painter to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici. The sitter has not been identified; Bronzino, himself a poet, moved in Florentine literary circles, and the book suggests a man of letters. Infrared reflectography has shown that Bronzino altered parts of the composition as he worked. The painting came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1929 with the bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A young man in black with a book and a hand on his hip in a cool grey interior beside carved furniture, for a study, library or hallway at 24×32 in black. A charcoal, slate or warm grey wall; it pairs with Juan de Pareja.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Renaissance painting
- Era
- 16th century (1530s)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×32. Prints at 12×16, 18×24, 24×32 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×32 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
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