The Knight in Black is an oil on canvas portrait painting of an unknown male subject by Giovanni Battista Moroni, from c. 1567.

[1][2] The first written reference to the work shows it was probably in Secco Suardo's collection with other portraits produced for his family by the same artist.

He seems to be from the nobility, because of his fine clothing, has a beard and is portrayed standing, life-sized, dressed in black according to the fashion of the time, refined even more by a curled white collar.

The clothing has an extraordinary drapery, specially adequated for the composition which is based on a single colour.

He is probably inserted in the context of a house, with the presence of a gray background with pilasters, on which his shadow is also hinted.