This more-than-half-length portrait presents a boy dressed in black with a white shirt. He rests his left hand on his waist while holding his gloves in his right. A gold chain around his neck is match [+]
In spite of the optimism about the drawing´s authorship expressed by one of its earlier owners, this is surely a copy after a sixteenth-century Venetian composition, which I have not yet identified. T [+]
This is a good drawing by an accomplished hand. Judging from its style, the artist seems to have been Florentine, since there are some echoes of the work of Giovanni Battista Naldini (c. 1537-1591) an [+]
The drawing was formerly placed in the collection under the name of Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510), following the traditional identification. The style is however surely Marchigian, not Florentine, a [+]