c. 1490-1500
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Sprig of Cockscomb
Artist/maker unknownThe flower the man holds, a cockscomb, was native to India and the Far East and was probably introduced to Europe in the fifteenth century. As an exotic species, it might allude to the horticultural interests of the sitter.
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