Portrait of a Man is an oil painting by Titian, made about 1515, now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.^[1]

Identity of the sitter

It may have been the painting seen by Carlo Ridolfi in Nicolas Régnier's house around 1648.^{[citation needed]} It has traditionally been known as Portrait of Ariosto due to its similarity to A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, another Titian work previously thought to depict Ariosto, and to a print of Ariosto in the 1532 edition of Orlando Furioso.^[2]

Provenance

Its status as an autograph work by the artist is supported by Bernard Berenson.^{[citation needed]} Auctioned at Sotheby's in London on 29 January 1929, it passed to the Booth Tarkington collection in Indianapolis.^{[citation needed]}