The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nightgown

Date:: 1936
Culture:: French
Medium:: silk
Dimensions:: Length at CB: 58 in. (147.3 cm)
Credit Line:: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1951
Accession Number:: 2009.300.2380

This artwork is not on display

Description

Featured is an elegant example of French nightwear. Particularly interesting, is the pictorial machine-made lace of woodland motifs. This theme is then carried out in the tree motifs seen in the fine tucking and embroidery at the bodice of the gown.
See also
What
Costume (41,678)

Silk (32,922)

Nightgowns (130)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)
When
A.D. 1900-present (77,516)
In the Museum
Costume Institute (34,166)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
France, 1900 A.D.–present

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