Portrait of the Ambassador Gabriel de Luetz d’Aramont

Gabriel
  de Luetz d’Aramont was a highly skilled diplomat, but also an unscrupulous
  and violent man of arms, employed by Francis I of France on numerous missions
  in Turkey. He commissioned his portrait from Titian probably in 1541-1542,
  during the longest of his stays in Venice. X-ray analysis of the painting has revealed to us that
  the portrait had a tormented genesis: Titian
  spent a lot of time on the formal layout of the portrait, as shown by the two
  previous versions that emerged from the analysis. The psychological insight typical of the artist’s other
  portraits is not particularly strong here, but the pictorial quality, the
  refined colour choices and the play of light on the background and on the
  face is remarkable.