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

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

the painting remains mysterious and full of ambiguities

of passers-by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl

X-ray analysis shows that the composition was changed several times

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

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.