The half-length man on a dark background, in a meditative pose, harks back to the prototypes created on various occasions by Ribera and revisited in the 18th century by Traversi. The author’s intent is to capture, following the example of the master, occasional aspects of reality, in which it becomes essential to highlight the expression of the face to start an introspective investigation that, alongside that relating to the social condition, has the objective of highlighting the particular state of mind of the subject depicted and the man of the moment.