Keywords: Prospero Fontana Portrait of an Old Man.jpg Artwork creator Prospero Fontana Portrait of a seated old man in a fur-trimmed gown or coat holding a letter ~ 1575 1579 Technique oil canvas cm 113 97 V Fortunati 'Per la storia del ritratto a Bologna nel Cinquecento aggiunte a Prospero Fontana e a Bartolomeo Passerotti' in Arti a confronto Studi in onore di Anna Maria Matteucci Bologna 2004 p 148 fig 106 object history credit line Vera Fortunati attributes considerable importance to this Portrait of an elderly gentleman in the history of portraiture of the early Counterreformation period in Bologna dating it with all probability to the end of the 1570s http //m dorotheum com/en/auctions/current-auctions/list-lots-detail/auktion/11131-alte-meister/lotID/59/lot/1861419-prospero-fontana html offset 2 cHash 65182982950fb59771f9dc194be031b9 accession number http //m dorotheum com/en/auctions/current-auctions/list-lots-detail/auktion/11131-alte-meister/lotID/59/lot/1861419-prospero-fontana html offset 2 cHash 65182982950fb59771f9dc194be031b9 Dorotheum sale 11131 lot 59 PD-old-100 Prospero Fontana 1570s portrait paintings Portraits of men at three-quarter length Portraits with letters Images from Dorotheum Lynx clothing Male fur clothing in art Fur fashion in 1577 |