Portrait of a Young Man (copy of a self portrait believed to be by Raphael)

The subject is shown in a three-quarter view, looking over his shoulder toward the viewer with a composed expression. He wears a voluminous brown fur cloak over a white pleated shirt, set in an interior featuring a trompe-l'œil fly on the wall and a window revealing a distant landscape. This work is a circa 1700 copy of a famous lost painting by Raphael.

Raphael stands as the central visual interpreter of the High Renaissance Neoplatonic synthesis, harmonizing classical antiquity with Christian thought. This portrait type became an iconic representation of the artist as an intellectual and 'universal man' within the Western philosophical tradition.