Charles d’Amboise

Solario

After Andrea Solari (Italian, ca. 1460-1522). Charles d’Amboise (1473-1511), ca. 1507. Oil on poplar wood, 75 x 52 cm (29.5 x 20.5 in). Louvre Museum, collection of Louis XV (acquired in 1754), Department of Paintings, INV 674. Image courtesy of Louvre Museum, www.louvre.fr.

Unlike Bernardino de’Conti’s profile depiction of Charles d’Amboise, another portrait in the Louvre Museum in France, painted by Andrea Solario, is a frontal image of him. Full face in view, Solario’s version is more individualized than de’Conti’s more stylized side-view. Despite the difference in artistic styles, D’Amboise’s collar of shells and knots remains the same in both portraits.