This piece was created by Jacopo Carucci Pontormo between 1528 and 1530 in Florence. Pontormo was a mannerist painter whose best work was in portraiture. This portrait depicts a boy dressed as a Florentine foot soldier, with his torso twisted and a full view of a his face. While he stands with all the regalia of a military man, he stil has the aura of a young boy with rosy cheeks and disproportionally large hands. The identity of the sitter was never confirmed. In typical mannerist tradition, Pontormo elongs the body of the figure in an effort to express emotion of the sitter rather than accuracy.
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