Burt Stern wrote a very personal monograph about his last photographic session with Marilyn, coaxing her with Dom Prignon to shed her peignoir.

FORBES: The "Orange Marilyn" and the market

James Tissot's 1866 portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, splendidly dressed in a pink peignoir trimmed in show-stopping pink ruffles, shows her looking strangely vulnerable among many costly possessions, objects that may one day break but do not die.

WSJ: A Rustling Theater of the Self | Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Laura Jacobs