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Description: | Comparison of this lady's dress with others from the second half of the eighteenth century shows that she may well be wearing a robe à la polonaise made of painted material. These appeared around 1772-1774. Simpler than court dresses, these were shorter and very quickly replaced the more bulky styles. The origin of the dress's name is unknown, as it does not appear to have been worn in Poland at all. It may be that the three overhanging parts forming the skirts symbolized the cutting up of Poland, but no written source may confirm this. The lady's large bonnet, worn over elevated powdered hair, is very much in keeping with hairstyles of the 1770s and slightly later. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8930... | Go to resource |
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