Shown from the chest up, a clean-shaven young man with pale, peachy skin looks off to our left against a cloudy sky in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left, and he gazes in that direction with dark eyes under thick, arched brows. He has a long nose, smooth cheeks, and a hint of a five-o-clock shadow around his closed, peach-colored lips. Chestnut-brown hair is covered by a black headdress with two long tails. One end drapes over the front of his right shoulder, farther from us, and the other end hangs down his back. He wears a brick-red garment that falls in…
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Portrait of a Young Man in Red

Giovanni Bellini (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516)

c. 1480

Medium
oil and tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 32 x 26.5 cm (12 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.) ; framed: 50.5 x 44.9 x 3.5 cm (19 7/8 x 17 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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
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