Cavalier d'Arpin
The date of the painting is disputed. According to Caravaggio's contemporary Giulio Mancini, this painting and the "Penitent Magdalene", together with an unidentified painting of Saint John the Evangelist, was done while Caravaggio was staying with Monsignor Fantino Petrignani, shortly after leaving the workshop of Giuseppe Cesari. This probably happened in January 1594.