A Young Man Frame:none the painting remains mysterious and

the painting remains mysterious and full of ambiguities

presumably on the grounds of a certain resemblance to Lievens's features as recorded in Van Dyck's 'Iconographie'

even whiles you looke upon it

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

A Young Man Frame:none the painting remains mysterious 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.