This is a terracotta bust made by Cesare Brazzini in Florence, Italy, about 1875. This bust represents an imaginary portrait of Alessandro de Medici, 1st Duke of Florence. This type of imaginary historical portrait was fashionable in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although they were not generally intended to deceive at the time they were made, some busts must have later passed for contemporary portraits. In this case the grotesque mask on the front of the socle of the bust is an anachronism, being in the Florentine style of the later sixteenth century.