# Alessandro de' Medici in Profile [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONTORMO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Stylus, black chalk, traces of another red chalk drawing, 165 x 126 mm ## Commentary Alessandro de' Medici in Profile c. 1534 Stylus, black chalk, traces of another red chalk drawing, 165 x 126 mm Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence This drawing was used for a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/f/franceso/03/medici.html'\)" href="/html/f/franceso/03/medici.html">medal of Alessandro de' Medici</a> by Francesco dal Prato, and for a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vasari/1/02medicx.html'\)" href="/html/v/vasari/1/02medicx.html">large-scale portrait</a> by Vasari. The drawing is in a 1609 mount bound in a volume of drawings of Medici portraits by Daniele Eremita \(Flemish, 1584-1613\). ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve at Work]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Anatomical study]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth Tray \(back\)]() - [Birth Tray \(front\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici in Profile]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()