A head and shoulders portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti. Facing to the left, he is dressed in the Doge's cap and ermine mantle. From 1516 it was Titian's duty to produce the official images of the Doges, particularly for the Maggior Consiglio (although this set was lost in the second Palazzo Ducale fire of 1577). Andrea Gritti was Doge 1523-38, but Titian was paid for his Maggior Consiglio portrait on 18 August 1540. This appears to be the only variant of the portrait in winter dress. Although such images were routine products of Titian's studio, with the type best represented by the version in the Metropolitan Museum, this picture is itself unlikely to be a product of Titian's studio and may even have been painted after 1600. Titian's most spectacular portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti is the half-length now in Washington; bought for Charles I in Italy in 1626, it is unrelated to this portrait.