# Portrait of a Condottiero [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GENTILESCHI, Artemisia]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 208 x 128 cm ## Commentary The identity of the sitter is unknown. He wears parade armour, along with starched ruff and cuffs, decorated on the breast with a cross with trefoils at its extremities. He sports a richly bordered green scarf. The cross and the scarf indicate that the man belongs to the order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus. The painting is distinguished by its high quality of execution and level of inventiveness. It is one of the rare signed and dated portraits by the artist. The painting was executed in Rome. ## Related artworks - [Bathsheba at her Bath]() - [Bathsheba]() - [Birth of St John the Baptist]() - [Clio, the Muse of History]() - [Danaë \(detail\)]() - [Danaë]() - [Jael and Sisera]() - [Judith and Her Maidservant]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes \(detail\)]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()