Portrait of a Young Man

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1630

J. Paul Getty Museum

A red chalk drawing depicts the head and shoulders of a young man with tousled hair and a soft smile. He is looking directly at the viewer. <em>Dessins français et italiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle dans les collections privées françaises</em>, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Claude Aubry, 1971), no. 13. Harris, Ann Sutherland, ed. <i>Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini</i> (New York: Dover Publications, 1977), p. 16, pl. 10.