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Description: | An eighteenth-century woman, this lady wears a bonnet, like most of her female contemporaries. These hair accessories were very varied in style and depended on women's social status and activity. Because of the muslin shawl wrapped around her shoulders, it is possible to give the painting an approximate date of about 1780-89. Indeed, in the years preceding the French Revolution, fashions became much tamer than in the previous years, with women starting to wear simpler dresses, whilst shawls allowed richer ladies to show their 'closeness' to the people by dressing down. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8941... | Go to resource |
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