Datable to around 1560–1565, it was acquired by Leopoldo de' Medici and is now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence.

In the Palazzo Pitti, it is possible to track the placement of paintings in varies rooms of the ducal apartments.

The painting's frame today, also old, originally belonged to a bigger canvas.

In fact, Tintoretto, in portraying him, emphasized the range of his cultural interests and underlined by his more human aspects through a measured agreement of greys and blacks (the darkness of the background and his clothes) that make his face and hands stand out.

He gazes absently out of the canvas, while his face displays his age, accentuated by the deep black shadows dug out of his cheeks and temples.