Ferry Carondolet (1473-1528) and his Secretary (after Sebastiano del Piombo)

after Sebastiano del Piombo (Venice c.1485 - Rome 1547). Oil painting on canvas, Ferry Carondolet (1473-1528) and his Secretary after Sebastiano del Piombo (Venice c.1485 - Rome 1547), inscribed on note held by Ferry Carondelet: Honorabili devo / to. nobis. Dilecto / ferrico Carondel / et Archiacono / Bisuntino Con / siliario et Co / missario no / stra in Urbe, and Inscribed as if incised beneath the pediment of the portal: NOSCE OPORTUNITATEM ('Know your own good fortune'), late 17th century. The original painting is now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid. A half-length portrait of a man, seated at a desk to the left, gazing at the spectator, dressed in black with a fur-lined coat and black hat, holding a letter addressed to himself in his right hand. A secretary on the right, looks to him and is writing on a paper, another secretary is just visible at the back on the left. They are in a classical-style portico with Corinthian marble columns, a coffered ceiling and in the back-ground a pediment. On the right is a distant horizon with a landscape and pink and golden tinted clouds and sky. This must be an early copy of the original of 1512 which was in the Thyssen Collection at Lugano, now Museo Thyssen – Bornemisza, Madrid. Dunham Massey, Cheshire (Accredited Museum)