Antonello da Messina's small oil-on-wood portrait, painted around 1470, reflects his role in transmitting Netherlandish oil technique and its close, luminous description of flesh to Venice and southern Italy. The three-quarter pose and steady, direct gaze — conventions Antonello helped popularize in Italian portraiture — give the sitter an immediacy unusual for the period. Measuring just over ten by eight inches, the panel rewards close viewing in a way its modest scale might otherwise obscure. It entered the collection through the Benjamin Altman bequest of 1913, joining several other fifteenth-century portraits from the same source. Scion treats such consistency of origin, where multiple works share a single well-recorded collecting history, as a particularly strong form of provenance.