Full length male negro wearing elaborate baroque ballet de cour-style costume, with pointed high waisted jacket in blue and pink mauve vertical stripes and a white high double collar with serrated edge; the short sleeves are of alternating two layers of strips, the upper pink mauve, the lower blue, edged yellow, and the fitted undersleeves have alternating narrow stripes in the same blue and pink and white cuffs with serrated edges. The 'kilt' consists of three rows of overlapping graduated strips in the same blue and pink mauve the lowest row trimmed with yellow tassels. On the head is a yellow gold crown with blue and pink mauve plumes and yellow stiff feathers and the costume is worn with calf-high yellow boots with dark red pink tassels. On reverse a drawing of a lower skirt and legs and shoes of a similar figure. Pencil and gouache.