Of this portrait of Doge Francesco Erizzo (reg. 1631-1646) there is another version, of slightly higher quality, preserved at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The canvas of the Galleries, also certainly autographed, could have been made for the doge's family, from whose Villa Erizzo, near Bassano del Grappa, it comes, according to the indications of Sandra Moschini Marconi (1970). Arriving in the lagoon in 1633, at the height of his fame, the Genoese Bernardo Strozzi quickly won prestigious commissions and distinguished himself above all in the portrait genre, taking over from Tiberio Tinelli, who died in 1638. The Genoese painter manages to give the effigy a tone of intimate realism while not giving up the austerity of an official portrait, playing on the expression of the face and on the simple but effective gesture of the right hand carried on the belt. The rich mise en scène of the doge includes the display of the precious clothes symbolizing his power: the doge's horn, the ocher-gold mantle and the white fur cape.