Self-Portrait Sundays: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – Italy – 1453

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Self-portrait (drawing, black stone, traces of white highlights on blue paper) by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1466/1467-1516), an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). This picture is an assignment or possibly the resume that the artist gave to Leonardo da Vinci to prove his talents. 
(Collections du Musée du Louvre)