Attributed to Girolamo Savoldo (c. 1480-1548)
Portrait of a Man with a Hawk c. 1510-15
RCIN 405764
This sculptural and intensely naturalistic portrait shows a man feeding a sparrowhawk. Savoldo’s attention to ordinary reality and his use of a single light source were elements of the Lombard tradition, adopted later by Caravaggio.
