The Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter, also known as The Lawyer, is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni, from 1570-1572.

The writing MAG was translated in the past as Magistrato (magistrate) differently from Magnifico (magnificent), like the artist most likely originally intended.

Even the word Roman on the sheet as indicated by Italian art historian Mina Gregori it is not a person's name, but a place in Bergamo region, where Moroni had worked.

[4] The portrayed character, whose identity is unknown, perhaps a man of letters, shows a great vitality revealed by the slight rotation of his head and the position of his hands.

[6][7] The painting was in the collection of the Napoleonic general Teodorio Lechi, with the title Portrait of a Knight, according to a catalogue of 1814.