Portrait of a Man

A photograph of a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Ruland identified the sitter as the Italian poet Jacopo Sannazaro, following an opinion previously expressed by Passavant (1860) according to whom the painting was owned by William II and sold to the Empress of Russia at the Le Haye sale in 1850. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.