This vertical portrait shows the head, shoulders, and chest of a young man with smooth, pale skin and shoulder-length, dark blond hair positioned behind a narrow gray, stone ledge. Shown against a black background, the man tilts his head to our left and his eyes cut to our right. His left eyebrow, on our right, is slightly arched over brown eyes. He has a long, straight nose, pale pink lips, and his hair falls down the sides of his face from beneath a crimson-red, flat-topped cap. He wears a brown garment with white linen peeking through at the shoulder seams. The neck and seam down the…
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Portrait of a Youth

painter Sandro Botticelli (Florentine, 1446 - 1510)

c. 1482/1485

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 43.5 x 46.2 cm (17 1/8 x 18 3/16 in.) ; framed: 60.3 x 50.5 x 4.4 cm (23 3/4 x 19 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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