SKH Erbprinz Luitpold von Bayern
About 1914
Photograph
Museum no. B.102-1993

Photographic sepia postcard of portrait proportions,  showing Prince  Luitpold of Bayern in aesthetic dress of the type made  popular by Oscar  Wilde.  He wears a loose-fitting single-breasted jacket  of dark satin with  lace-trimmed collar and cuffs, matching satin knee- breeches, dark  stockings, and black patent pumps with large  buckles.   He is standing  by a Louis Quinze sofa in a half-panelled  room with an  arabesque  patterned wallpaper.

Artistic men often wore a wide-brimmed soft hat, long hair and sometimes adopted knee breeches. Artistic dress continued to be worn throughout the twentieth century. However, after the First World War, mainstream fashionable dress became less cumbersome and restrictive.