Oil painting on canvas measuring 60 x 50 cm without frame and 73 x 62 cm with frame depicting a noble man by the painter Nicola Maria Rossi (Naples 1690 - 1758). Neapolitan painter, he entered the workshop of Francesco Solimena in 1706. Initially he adhered so faithfully to the master's style that his works were mistaken for works by Solimena himself, as De Dominici tells us in his Lives of Neapolitan painters, sculptors and architects; a substantial part of its production is still visible today in Neapolitan churches. In this painting Rossi still shows his strong Solimenesque derivation primarily in the realization of the portrait of the nobleman for his gravity and solemnity