# Portrait of a Gentleman with Gloves [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LOTTO, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 90 x 75 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Gentleman with Gloves c. 1543 Oil on canvas, 90 x 75 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan This work has always been regarded as one of the finest of Lotto's portraits for its subtly nuanced expression of the sitter's face, and for the quality of the execution. It is assumed that the sitter was Liberale da Pinedel \(1495-1548\), and the portrait was executed at Treviso. Pinedel's family was originally from San Stefano di Pinidello near Ceneda, but had settled in Treviso in the fourteenth century. The family was originally employed as barrel-makers, but by the mid-sixteenth century it was closely associated with the legal profession, and in 1593 it was admitted to the ranks of the local nobility. Pinedel is portrayed wearing an expensive costume, with the few but telling accessories of a gentleman: gold chain, heavy gold ring, embroidered white handkerchief, and gloves. The compositional formula resembles that <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/tiziano/10/21/17englis.html'\)" href="/html/t/tiziano/10/21/17englis.html">evolved by Titian</a> for his own aristocratic portraits. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Chastity detail\)]() - [Allegory of Chastity \("Maiden's Dream"\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice]() - [Angel Annunciating]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Architect]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()