The bachelor
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Young gentleman portrayed in his library, with instruments representative of his intellectual occupation. The painting, datable within the first 2 decades of the century XIX, brings back to the tradition of the portrait that was executed at the end of the course of study, bearing witness to their crowning and the achievement of adulthood. Resting on the table there are three books and a case containing the reading glasses (detail photo n.2), objects which, together with the other books kept neatly on the library shelves, indicate that the young man has crowned a cycle of humanistic studies. The stylistic features of the composition refer to d