# Portrait of a Young Man, in 16th-century Italy

Dosso Dossi painted this in about 1530, aged about 35. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Like other paintings from the Dossi workshop, this work conveys the sitter's social status and self-confidence. He holds a crumpled letter written in Italian. The words Asto , meaning "ship mast," and mare , meaning "sea," suggest that trade was a topic of this letter.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1530
- Medium: oil and gold on wood
- Dimensions: Framed: 128.2 x 102.2 x 11.5 cm (50 1/2 x 40 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 97.2 x 77.5 cm (38 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.803
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Dosso Dossi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/dosso-dossi), Italian, c. 1490–after 1541

1 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Dosso Dossi's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-dosso-dossi?hang=749) (8 works)
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