Man in Astrakhan

I was trawling through my computer archives the other night looking for a scan of an old oil pastel illustration (I didn’t find it). I did find however this fashion drawing I created in the 90s, of a man wearing an astrakhan-lapelled quilted robe and red silk scarf, à la the dandified fashions of the nineteenth century.

This looks like a mixed-media piece in ink and oil pastel, and I am not sure if it was a life drawing, or whether I was using a fashion photograph as reference. He does look a little like a Jean Paul Gaultier model. Whatever the case, I like this rather powerful drawing. I did a pretty good job on the astrakhan too, if I may say so myself!