Adolf Boutar was an Ethiopean who often posed at Pulchri Studio, the artists’ association in The Hague. Breitner made a few drawn studies of him, as well as a painting that is now in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Boutar wears a kimono, perhaps on the occasion of the Japanese evening held in 1887. The typical shape of a kimono, consisting of several long rectangular panels, is clearly recognizable.