Portrait of the Artist Ernest Ange Duez 1894 Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931)

The picture has something of this: people, portrait, man, facial hair, mustache, wear, elderly, lid, veil, leader, scientist, saint, cross, weapon.
Perhaps it’s a close up of a painting of a man with a beard wearing a black hat and a black coat and holding a cigarette in his right hand.