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Picasso was not yet 19 years old when he painted this picture of a man wearing a tippet, a long black shoulder cape. After moving into a studio in Barcelona with his painter friend Carlos Casagemas at the beginning of 1900, Picasso spent his first few months in the art metropolis of Paris, where he visited the World's Fair and set up a studio in Montmartre. The man in a tippet stands in a dark-looking room, wearing a hat and smoking a pipe. Two cropped pictures on the wall frame the man's serious face. The white collar glows, his black shoes appear large and heavily worn.

This painting by Picasso is characterised by a loose brushstroke. The focus is on a few motifs: the figure of the man, the colourful pictures on the wall, the dishes draped like a still life and the bottles on the table. The impression of the man and the room seems fleeting, yet pointed: Picasso shows a man in his personal environment between art and everyday life, between interior and exterior space, as the tippet indicates an arrival or departure. The painting style indicates that Picasso left academic rules behind. Instead, he was inspired by French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and produced works with metropolitan themes. In the painting „Man with Tippet“, Picasso also reflected on his own situation as a painter in the Paris art scene at the turn of the century.