Porträt eines Mannes, der eine Frau umarmt

A Man embracing a Woman

Dosso was court painter to Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. A man, perhaps Alfonso's clown, Il Gonnella, embraces a female figure, who may be a nymph. This is a fragment of a ceiling decoration from the duke's castle in Ferrara, northeast Italy. The complete work was in the form of a circular opening through which various figures could be glimpsed.