Portrait of a Man (Parmigianino)
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Portrait of a Young Man is an oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, executed c. 1530, now in the Uffizi in Florence, whose collection it entered on 27 October 1682.[1] Three copies survive in the Museo di Capodimonte (n. 201), Rome's Accademia di San Luca and the Galleria nazionale di Parma (n. 313, inscribed with the date "MDXX", which is probably also the date of the Uffizi work).
It has traditionally been identified as a self-portrait, as recorded by an inscription on the reverse. That identification was still current when it appeared in the 1773 Serie degli uomini più illustri nella pittura. It was in Florence at least by the time of
Later art historians from Ghidiglia Quintavalle and Fagiolo dell'Arco onwards dismissed this identification, particularly since the subject's face does not match more securely-identified self-portraits of the artist such as
More recently Freedberg (1950) and P. Rossi (1980) have argued in favour of the inscription's authenticity. They compare the painting with drawings which are probable self-portraits, particularly n. 790A in the
References
- ISBN 8818-02236-9
- ^ "Catalogue entry".