Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Moneta

The noble Giovanni Antonio Moneta (1625-1677) belonged to the Collegio dei Giureconsulti. In the will in which he leaves 73,000 lire to the Maggiore Hospital, he also establishes that sacred objects, described with great detail, donated by St. Charles Borromeo to a Giovanni Moneta priest, his namesake and relative, are donated to the Milan Cathedral to be placed in the "scurolo di San Carlo" (the crypt where the saint is buried). The portrait is commissioned from Salomon Adler, who receives 118 lire as compensation. The dating of the canvas, 1677, is useful to establish in which years the activity in Milan of this painter of Gdansk, a famous portrait painter, became settled after his stays in Bergamo and Venice.