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This is a drawing of a landscape with a figure holding an object. The drawing depicts a figure sitting in a pastoral landscape, holding what appears to be a mirror or a feather. The scene is drawn in a loose, sketch-like manner. The figure is clad in draped garments, set against a backdrop of trees and a faint suggestion of distant fields or hills. The foreground includes a bird with its plumage fanned out. The lines and shading are executed with a brisk and energetic hand.
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This is a drawing of a landscape with a figure holding an object. The drawing depicts a figure sitting in a pastoral landscape, holding what appears to be a mirror or a feather. The scene is drawn in a loose, sketch-like manner. The figure is clad in draped garments, set against a backdrop of trees and a faint suggestion of distant fields or hills. The foreground includes a bird with its plumage fanned out. The lines and shading are executed with a brisk and energetic hand.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

An Elegant Young Man Personifying Vanity

Francesco Brizio

Medium
pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 19.5 x 29.9 cm (7 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2002.64.1
Credit line
Gift of Diane Allen Nixon
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Italian
  • emotion
  • allegory
Provenance

Tobias Christ, London; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 9 April 1981, no. 20, as Bolognese School); Private Collection, Cape Town, South Africa. (James Faber Ltd., London); purchased 2002 by NGA.

NGA object ID 124803. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.