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The youthful sitter of this portrait wears a purple tunic edged with fur over a doublet with a high collar. Two rings set with rubies are worn on the middle joint of his right "ring" finger. Shown as though standing behind a parapet in a simple room pierced by a lateral loggia embellished with veined marble columns, he appears to be in his twenties and must have been a member of the sizable Florentine community in Bruges (a considerable part of Memling's surviving portraits were commissioned by Italians).
Florentine painters admired the astonishing quality of verisimilitude achieved by Flemish painters and they were inspired by Flemish models.
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