Giovan Battista Moroni

(Albino - Albino, 1578)

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The painting bears a wax stamp on the back: "GALERIE SEDELMEYER PARIS".

This painting is an example of the accurate realism and absence of rhetorical artifice that characterised Lombard portrait painting in the late 16th Century, following the example of Giovan Battista Moroni. From that high model we find here, in addition to the lenticular analyticity of the pictorial rendering, the measured tone, the concentrated composition, the subtly melancholic character: qualities that, mutatis mutandis, descend from such superb Moronian achievements as the Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva y Giron in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, the Portrait of Giovan Pietro Maffei in the Kunsthistoriscehs Museum, Vienna, and the Portrait of a Knight in the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum, Budapest.