A Young Man Frame:none forget-me-nots and roses - and

forget-me-nots and roses - and the marble ledge

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

the painting remains mysterious and full of ambiguities

it was rightly described in Sparkes and Carver 1890 as a 'wretched painting

A Young Man Frame:none forget-me-nots and roses - andThe 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.