Portrait of a Man
Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)
shortly after 1497 · Oil on wood · European Paintings
In painting this fine portrait, which dates about 1497, Fra Bartolomeo took as his model the work of Hans Memling, whose portraits of Florentine merchants in Bruges were well known in Italy. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo had a keen response to nature, drawing landscape views in an album (for example, The Met 57.165; visit metmuseum.org). The inscription with the putative name of the sitter was added later.
- Artist
- Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)
- Date
- shortly after 1497
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
