Getting dressed up for New Year's Eve like ✨ This opulently dressed man with glossy clean-shaven skin and clear blue eyes gazes directly at us with a slight smile on his lips. He wears a rose-gold coloured jacket with exotic gold tassels, covered with a gorgeous teal silk-velvet cloak lined with embroidered gold silk damask. His soft velvet cap matches his cloak and is decorated with a spray of black herons’ feathers in a gold setting, from which dangles a huge pear-shaped baroque pearl. The man has been previously identified as the painter Jean-Baptiste Forest, and as the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, but the evidence does not entirely support either suggestion. Who do you think he could be? Nicolas de Largillierre, 'Portrait of a Man', probably 1710 © The National Gallery, London. #ArtHistory #NewYear #NewYearsEve #NationalGallery