A Young Man Frame:none even whiles you looke upon

even whiles you looke upon it

Saint Lawrence of Rome (c

the painting has always been the subject of speculation and conflicting interpretations

1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1678-1757) and no portraits of her in her maturity are recorded

formerly thought to be those of the Villa of Maecenas

A Young Man Frame:none even whiles you looke uponThe panel is a fragment made up with an addition at the bottom (at present concealed by the frame). Attributed in 1813 to Leonardo da Vinci and later to Boltraffio, the attribution to Piero di Cosimo seems now to be generally accepted, although Bacci expresses reservations. A date in the first years of the sixteenth century seems probable.