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This three-quarters portrait is of a young man who stands facing outward, his head slightly turned to the right. He has a high forehead, and straight nose and wears a wig drawn back from his face. He is lit from the upper left highlighting his clothing: a long blue silk robe trimmed with fur is worn over a pale blue silk waistcoat, which is decorated with golden embroidery. Underneath this is a white lace shirt with a high neck and white lace cuffs. His left arm rests on a sculpted capital positioned in the right foreground. He holds a scroll of white paper in his left hand and some dividers in his right hand. The background, in shadow, depicts a very large bell-shaped vase decorated with a frieze in the upper left section of the image (Figure 9). To the right is a sculpted figure in a niche.