Portrait of a Bearded Man

A print after a portrait attributed to Lorenzo Lotto (c.1515-18) currently in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405753). The legend below image identifies the sitter as the Venetian painter Giorgione. This state, lettered below image with 'Giorgione da Castel Franco.P.', is not described in Hollstein. The plate was published in 'Variarum imaginum a celeberrimis artificibus pictarum Caelaturae' (a series of plates reproducing pictures then in the collection of Gerard Reynst), 1660- Ruland (1876) followed Passavant (1860) in describing the painting as a portrait of Giorgione executed by Titian. An outline-ecthing after the portrait, published in Landon's 'Vie et Œuvre complète de Raphaël Sanzio' (1803, plate 319), can be found at RCIN 852159.