Portrait of a Gentleman (Melone) explained

Portrait of Gentleman
Artist:	Altobello Melone
Movement:	Renaissance
Height Metric:	58.1
Width Metric:	48.2
Museum:	Accademia Carrara
City:	Bergamo
Owner:	Guglielmo Lochis

Portrait of a Gentleman is a 1513 oil on wood panel by Altobello Melone.^[1] It is kept in the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.^[2]

It is one of the most famous paintings from the collection of Count Guglielmo Lochis, where for it was thought to be a portrait of Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.^[3] The attribution to Altobello Melone was first made in 1871.^[4] It was confirmed in 1955 by Mina Gregori, who compared the portrait in eccentric style to Melone's The road to Emmaus.^[5]

Some three hundred years after the portrait was painted, the Borgia family ordered a copy from Pelagio Palagi, and the copy was discussed at some length by Antoine-Claude Pasquin.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Portrait of a gentleman (Cesare Borgia?) . 13 February 2019 . National Gallery of Australia.
2. Web site: Ritratto di Cesare Borgia . 13 February 2019 . it . LombardiaBeniCulturali.
3. Web site: Portrait of a gentleman (Cesare Borgia?) . 13 February 2019 . . Jaynie . Anderson . Jaynie Anderson.
4. Book: Crowe, J.A. . J. A. Crowe . G.B. . Cavalcaselle . G. B. Cavalcaselle . A history of painting in Northern Italy . London . . 1871 . 453.
5. Mina . Gregori . Altobello, il Romanino e il cinquecento cremonese . . 69 . 1955 . 9–10, 14–15.
6. Book: Valéry, M. . Voyages historiques et littéraires en Italie pendant les années 1826, 1827 et 1828; ou, L'indicateur italien . Brussels . Louis Hauman et Compagnie . 1835 . 54, 77.