Portrait of Domenico Morandi

The hospital administration has the portrait of Cesare Morandi, a rich landowner, who died in 1885, because the widow, Rachele Bertolaja, to honor her memory, made a donation to the Ospedale Maggiore during her lifetime of property, asking for a portrait of her husband in addition to her own. The commission is assigned to Cesare Tallone, who paints it in Bergamo, where he taught at the Carrara Academy, using a photograph as a model, as noted by the painter himself next to the signature on the lower left.