Portrait of a Man
c. 1470
Medium
tempera on hardboard transferred from canvas transferred from panel
Dimensions
overall: 24.2 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) framed: 37.6 x 32.5 x 3.2 cm (14 13/16 x 12 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-R
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1952.2.5
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was born around 1431 near Padua, in the Venetian Republic, the son of a carpenter. At approximately age eleven he was taken into the workshop of the Paduan painter and antiquities collector Francesco Squarcione, who enrolled him as a guild member and immersed him in the study of Roman sculpture and classical Latin. Though Mantegna later claimed that Squarcione had exploited his lab...