Please help me identify this Renaissance(?) Painting of a Young Man from a recent dream!

A few weeks ago, I had a dream that starred a Renaissance-style painting of a young man looking plaintively at the viewer slightly to his right, possibly with a guitar. My first thought upon waking was, "oh, that's by Raphael", but substantial google image searches did not turn up the painting. I expanded my searches to Botticelli and other various Renaissance artists without success.

I am now turning to ILX to help me find this painting before I conclude that my dreaming mind created a painting that does not exist.

A Youth Playing a Guitar by Astolfo Petrazzi? (Baroque not Renaissance though)

maybe it doesn't exist because you dreamed it. Now make it a reality, get some oils!

Cariani’s Lute Player?

have you an image you can post

I'll ask my subconscious.

Not the Petrazzi or Cariani.

Not sure about the guitar. Also, I think he was wearing a hat/cap.

lmao I think I might know the painting you are talking about, does he have a cap with a feather in it? (I do not know who painted it sorry)

Every painting has a cap with a feather in it if you look hard enough

GIS reveals a surprisingly large number of paintings of guitar players.

^^^
The look on the face is the most distinctive element of the painting though.

If the ILX hivemind actually identifies this for you I am going to be incredibly impressed.

id imagine its ter brugghen, most things are

First thought is that self portrait of Durer for some reason

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer%2C_Selbstbildnis_mit_26_Jahren_%28Prado%2C_Madrid%29.jpg/960px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer%2C_Selbstbildnis_mit_26_Jahren_%28Prado%2C_Madrid%29.jpg

It seemed more Italian Renaissance than Northern Renaissance.

What kind / colour of clothes were they wearing? Was it close up, like the Durer, or from more of a distance, like Caravaggio’s Lute Player, for example? Indoors or outdoors? I feel like we need more to work with.

I mostly remember the face. The orientation was similar to this Caravaggio, except the subject was turned a little more toward the viewer and the head is more level instead of cocked back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Caravaggio#/media/File:Young_Sick_Bacchus-Caravaggio_(1593).jpg

It's possible that they were wearing a big floppy beret like in some Rembrandt self portraits. I can't swear to this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Young_Sick_Bacchus-Caravaggio_%281593%29.jpg

ok, one last try:

https://borghese.gallery/wp-content/uploads/Young-Sick-Bacchus.jpg

Are you thinking of the Lute Player by Caravaggio?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lute_Player_(Caravaggio)

Peter Lorre was hot when he was younger

No, not the Lute Player. Facing the wrong way, too!

If you are looking for him to be facing the other way it could be another Caravaggio picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musicians_%28Caravaggio%29

Caravaggio is technically Baroque, not Renaissance

Woops ignore me

How about this guy?

I've never seen that painting. It is great! Love the way the figure pops off the green. Alas, not my painting.

The closest one I've seen is Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man:

https://cdn.britannica.com/52/30252-050-6E8A4684/Portrait-of-a-Young-Man-wood-Il.jpg

Still not it.

That made me think of Moroni's Tailor but no lute.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-battista-moroni-the-tailor-il-tagliapanni

have you been listening to Panda Bear?

Another Bronzino, oriented the right way, I think?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Angelo_Bronzino_-_portrait_of_Ugolino_Martelli_-_WGA3264.jpg/500px-Angelo_Bronzino_-_portrait_of_Ugolino_Martelli_-_WGA3264.jpg

I've not seen this Bronzino; unfortunately not it either.

The young man might be either a satyr or an older cherub-like figure, possibly from a larger landscape or mythological scene.

The figure might also be made up, too.

any of these?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lute_Player_(Hals)

Unfortunately, no. The youth in question is very, very attractive as Renaissance youths go.