The head, shoulders, and chest of a light-skinned boy or young man wearing a black cap and red garment nearly fill this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled slightly to our right, and he looks at us from the corners of his hazel eyes. He has smooth skin, rounded cheeks, faint, thin eyebrows, and a small nose. His full, dark pink lips are closed. He wears a brimless, soft black cap, slightly askew, over long chestnut-brown hair that covers his ears and flows down past his shoulders. Two small, gold, vertical lines accent the front center of his cap near the lower edge. He wears a…
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Portrait of a Youth

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (Milanese, 1467 - 1516)

c. 1495/1498

Medium
oil on walnut panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.8 × 34.8 cm (18 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.) ; framed: 66.67 × 54.29 × 8.57 cm (26 1/4 × 21 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Milanese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Ralph and Mary Booth 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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