Portrait of a Youth with a Medal

(after Sandro Botticelli 1475)

Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder, also known as Portrait of a Youth with a Medal, is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.
The original painting features a young man displaying in triangled hands a medal stamped with the likeness of Cosimo de' Medici.
The identity of the young man has been a long-enduring mystery.
Completed in approximately 1475, it is on display in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.

image: handpainted on ivory chip
frame: wood with gilt glassholder.
preservation painting: excellent
preservation frame: good, hardly any wearing
dimensions : 106 mm. hor. x 110 mm. vert.
inner diameter: 46 mm
thick: 16 mm
convex glass
eyelet
backside: nothing mentioned





stock number 502