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Dress

1819–23
Not on view
As the nineteenth century progressed, the waistline slowly began to drop from immediately under the bust towards the natural waist. Although this gown reflects the reigning essentially columnular silhouette of the Empire, it retains vestiges of pre-revolutionary styles in its applied ornament that suggests the decorated stomacher and overskirt of the open robe of the ancien regime.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Date: 1819–23
  • Culture: European
  • Medium: silk
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939
  • Object Number: C.I.39.13.55a–c
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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