Jacopo Carrucci, called il Pontormo

This drawing once was considered a Pontormo self-portrait. It is highly finished, suggesting that either Bronzino was planning a painting of the artist or that he was using Pontormo as a model to work out the pose for a commission from a Florentine patrician. In fact, Bronzino later used the same pose in his Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi. The relationship to Michelangelo’s statue of Giuliano de’ Medici is striking.