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Description: | Women of all social classes wore bonnets during the eighteenth century. There was an enormous variety of bonnets, worn at different times of the day; they also reflected women's occupations and social rank. The style of this lady's dress suggest it may be a robe à la créole, a simple shirt-like dress popular in the 1780s, much easier to wear than the immense outfits previously favoured. They reflected the interest of the time for the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the love of the countryside and that of nature. Queen Marie-Antoinette was portrayed in such a simple dress in 1783 by Vigée Lebrun, thus launching this particular fashion. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8963... | Go to resource |
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