André Derain painted his old friend Lucien Gilbert in the wild, eccentric colors and style of Fauvism. The colors may be unconventional; the sitter is not. Derain presents Gilbert, a future architect, as a proper young professional: stylish but conservative.
Pompeo Batoni became the premiere portraitist for 18th-century English, Irish and Scottish gentlemen during their visit to Rome on the Grand Tour, as seen in this portrait of an unknown young man.
fez
1883 – Charles Frederick Worth, red silk satin and velvet dinner dress
15th century – Late Byzantine Silk Damask Dress and Taffeta Tunic
The Fez and the Ottoman Path to Modernity
1869 – Red Silk Dress