Unusual portrait of a nobleman, baroque period. Full-length portrait in survival size, depicting an elegantly dressed man with brown allonge wig in the interior, the portrait originating from the age of absolutism amazes with its dignified yet unpretentious rendering of the portrayed, the painting was certainly intended for the private setting, yet it shows the young gentleman without any attributes of rulership, leaning on a dresser, casually in an elegant housecoat, the shirt with jabot at the neck casually opened, in the intimate ambience of a bedchamber, this is probably the Imperial Court Councillor Wilhelm Franz von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven (1638-1732, son of the Electoral Mainz Privy Councillor, Chancellor and Hereditary Marshal of the Duchy of Berg, Bertram von Nesselrode and Countess Maria Magdalena von Hatzfeld and brother of Johann Carl Goswin Baron von Nesselrode), the sitter held numerous ecclesiastical as well as secular offices, he was bishop in Fünfkirchen and canon in Münster, Paderborn and Lüttich, furthermore he acted as Palatine-Neuburgian envoy in Osnabrück, court judge, chief huntsman and imperial envoy in Vienna and at the Savoy court, in 1721 he was raised to the rank of imperial count, the painter attached particular importance to the finely captured physiognomy, the noble pale incarnate parts, the delicate hands and the excellent capture of the noble laces and the gold-interwoven fabric of the house coat, which are thus given a special emphasis, furniture and drapery of the interior, on the other hand, are only skilfully indicated and discreetly restrained in their perception, oil on canvas, c. 1700, unsigned, inscribed on the reverse of the canvas "Wilh. Franc. does Bert. Comes de Nesselrod - Epis qiung. Eccles. Metr. Albae Regalis - Mag. Raepos S. G. M., Concil Intimus", Provenance: South German nobleman's property, craquelure, in the middle horizontal original attachment seam of the canvas, small missing parts in the canvas, in need of restoration, framed, folding dimensions approx. 203 x 121 cm.