Scipione Clusone was a leader in the service of the Republic of Venice and here he is portrayed while getting dressed with the help of a dwarf page. A constant presence in the courts of the time, where they worked as servants, the dwarfs were often included in the paintings that portrayed the Venetian society of the time. In the twentieth century, the painting was stolen by German soldiers with the aim of exhibiting it in a museum wanted by Hitler. When he returned to Italy in 1988, he was assigned to this museum.