Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute, The portrait shows the seated young man from the knees up, with his body facing to his right side but his head pointed off to his left side. He wears a black hat and black frock and tights, with a white collar showing at his neck. He rests his left hand on his thigh and rests his right arm against a table and holds a lute in his hand. On the table over a green table cloth, a small-scale statue shows the Classic Venus of Urbino, a motif in which the half-clothed or nude goddess is shown caught in the act of bathing. The sitter is in an interior space, with a chesterfield behind him, a door in the back, and the light coming from the viewer's left side, casting a shadow to the right side. This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending., c.1532-40

Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute, The portrait shows the seated young man from the knees up, with his body facing to his right side but his head pointed off to his left side. He wears a black hat and black frock and tights, with a white collar showing at his neck. He rests his left hand on his thigh and rests his right arm against a table and holds a lute in his hand. On the table over a green table cloth, a small-scale statue shows the Classic Venus of Urbino, a motif in which the half-clothed or nude goddess is shown caught in the act of bathing. The sitter is in an interior space, with a chesterfield behind him, a door in the back, and the light coming from the viewer's left side, casting a shadow to the right side. This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending., c.1532-40, spc-mss0088-s02-ss02-i5785, Box: 113. Contini-Volterra Photographic Archive, MSS.0088. Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives. https://collections.library.vanderbilt.edu//repositories/2/archival_objects/556356 Accessed September 19, 2026.