The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Vittore Carpaccio, a painter of the Venetian School and student of Gentile Bellini.
[2] The painting was restored in 2003 with funding from Mara and Chuck Robinson in honour of Prof. W. R. Rearick, and it is now displayed in the Museo Correr in Venice.
[1][3] Although the work was previously believed to be a 19th-century copy of a lost original, the conservation revealed that it was actually produced at the beginning of the 16th century by Vittore Carpaccio.
After removing layers of oxidised varnish, a surface of incredibly high pictorial quality was revealed, and the portrait is now considered to be the first in a series of portraits of Doge Leonardo Loredan.
Conservation was completed by Chiara Ceriotti of the ARKE restoration firm.