\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Silhouetted against a dark ground, a young man of around twenty-five to thirty is depicted in a three-quarter position, with his head
turned to look over his shoulder out of the frame. He is wearing a broad black hat and a lined black cloak with a fur border out of which protrudes, at the level of the collar, a piece of white cotton lace that brightens up the figureÆs face. He has allo
wed his sideburns to grow and his hair is swept forward past his ears. On the right, in a fine foreshortened view of his hand, the man is holding a burin, and a small goldsmithÆs tool is visible on the edge of the table. While the figureÆs identity is un
known, these instruments refer to the work of a goldsmith, making PontormoÆs painting one of the earliest emblematic portraits painted in Florence. Various proposals have been put forward identifying the subject of the picture with one of the jewelers an
d gem-cutters working at the Medici court in Florence.
