Corneille de Lyon specialized in small-scale portraits set against plain blue-green grounds, a format exemplified here in this depiction of an unidentified man holding a pair of gloves, painted around 1535. The tightly cropped composition and economical brushwork were suited to rapid production for a courtly clientele in Lyon and Paris, and the gloves themselves, a common attribute in portraiture of the period, likely signaled the sitter's gentility. Oil on wood, the panel is modest in size but precise in execution. It came to the collection through the Theodore M. Davis bequest of 1915. Scion's interest in workshop portraiture of this kind lies less in the sitter's unrecorded identity than in the documented, institutionally verified chain of custody the piece carries forward.