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Evening fichu

Date:
late 19th century
Culture:
French
Medium:
Silk
Credit Line:
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian G. Peirce, 1966
Accession Number:
2009.300.5568
Not on view

Timelines
France, 1800–1900 A.D.

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