Full-length male portrait (Cesare Formilli?)

This full-length male portrait, tentatively identified as Cesare Formilli, is undated, placing it somewhere in the span of Corcos's career from the 1880s through the 1920s. Male portraits were less central to Corcos's practice than his celebrated images of women, but he executed them throughout his career, often for professional men, intellectuals, and public figures. The full-length format is the most demanding of the portrait types — requiring the artist to manage spatial coherence across the entire figure from head to feet — and was typically reserved for subjects of considerable social importance. The tentative identification as Formilli (likely Theodore Cavalier Formilli, an Anglo-Italian architect active in the early twentieth century) situates the work within the professional-class Italian milieu that formed a significant part of Corcos's clientele.

Full-length male portraiture demands mastery of the clothed figure in space, and Corcos demonstrates this through careful management of the figure's proportions and the handling of the suit or formal attire. The face remains the zone of greatest tonal refinement, while the coat and trousers are rendered with broad, confident strokes that capture fabric weight without excessive detail.