Portrait of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo

Portrait of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo is an oil painting by Titian, signed and dated of 1552, which hangs in the São Paulo Museum of Art.

The youthful prelate, Cristoforo Madruzzo, Prince Bishop of Trent, and afterwards Cardinal, is dressed entirely in black silk, and turns half round to the front as he walks, while he lifts with his hand a red curtain, behind which is seen his writing-table covered with a green cloth.

[1] Giovanni Morelli and Charles Ricketts attributed it erroneously to Moroni.

[2] The picture affected Ricketts (in reproduction: he had not seen the original) as a late picture by Moroni; he thought it gauche in painting (noting the "clumsy short thumbs") and design.

[3] The picture passed through many hands, and was acquired by the São Paulo Museum of Art in 1951.