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Description: | This young woman's clothing is typical of the First Empire. Abandoning the use of whalebone corsets and wide skirts of the Ancien Régime, and wanting to get away from the eccentricity of the Directoire, women's silhouettes became much more natural at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fashion was inspired by antiquity, with high-waisted simple dresses in light colours, made of muslin, linen or percale. The sitter's hairstyle, à la Titus, also draws from antique statues. | Subjects: | portrait (unidentified girl) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9047... | Go to resource |
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