Male portrait Late 18th - early 19th century oil on canvas applied on cardboard 43 x 35 cm The painting depicts a bearded man with a headdress in ochre and rosy tones, caught in a half-length pose and rendered with intense expressiveness. The grazing light, which sculpts his features, and the rapid but sure brushstroke reveal a language close to that of the famous character heads by Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, particularly fortunate in late 18th-century Venice.The choice of warm tones, the theatrical setting and the psychological intensity of the face place the work in the Tiepolo context, reflecting the fortune and diffusion of this genre of portraits even in the decades following Giambattista's death (1770). A date in the late 18th - early 19th century thus seems the most plausible, in a context in which the Venetian tradition continued to produce images with a strong character destined both for private collectors and the international market.