The austere setting and the aforementioned probable identification of the effigy, allowed the work we present to be juxtaposed with the famous portrait of Princess Mariquita d'Adda Falcò - also Spanish - painted by Hayez in 1855 (cf. Mazzocca, op. cit., p. 325). The artist paid homage to the origins of the two Falcòs through the recovery of the Spanish portraiture tradition - evident in the hieraticity of the faces - and the use of typical hairstyles: with mantilla for the noblewoman and in the style of Velazqui for the gentleman. The common result of the two works is a solemn compositional layout in which deep psychological analysis and attention to mundane detail, essential in the depiction of two high society figures, coexist.