# Portrait of an Unknown Man with Red Beret [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARPACCIO, Vittore]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 35 x 23 cm ## Commentary Although the chronology of Vittore Carpaccio's work is fairly complex and cannot easily be correlated or compared to the network of influences and trends developed by the other artists active at the time, there is a group of paintings that can undoubtedly be dated at the early 1490s since they are so close stylistically to the Stories from the Life of St Ursula. Among them, the Man with the Red Cap in the Correr Museum in Venice, which has incorrectly been attributed in the past to Lorenzo Lotto, to Filippo Mazzola and to Bartolomeo Montagna. Standing out with almost sculptural relief from the landscape background, this figure shares the proud expression of the portraits Carpaccio painted of his contemporaries even in the earliest of the St Ursula cycle canvases. This painting was earlier attributed to Filippo Mazzola or Lorenzo Lotto. The attribution to Carpaccio is generally accepted, however, no documentation exists to prove either of the attributions. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Apotheosis of St Ursula \(detail\)]() - [Apotheosis of St Ursula]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors]() - [Baptism of the Selenites \(detail\)]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()