One of these was Louis of Toulouse, whom Celestine ordered given clerical tonsure and minor orders, although this was not carried out.

The figure is identified as a saint, rather than Christ, by his clerical tonsure.

He was married, to Celena, but evidently also held minor orders, as at least three self-portraits show him with a clerical tonsure.

On 1 January 1825 he received the ecclesiastical habit, followed by the clerical tonsure on 13 February 1825.

Sylvester, however, refused to wear the imperial crown above his clerical tonsure (by this gesture perhaps accentuating the superiority of his priestly office).

Martha subsequently became a nun and Amator received the clerical tonsure.

William de Brailes is shown with a clerical tonsure, but he was married, which suggests he had minor orders only.

After entering the minor seminary of Pesaro in 1899, he received the clerical tonsure on 26 December 1901.

Mantegna gave a notable attention not only to the details of the face (lips, wrinkles, the clerical tonsure), but also to the garments, indicating his high social status.

The presentation portrait to La controverse de noblesse, a year later, shows him with a clerical tonsure.