Merveilleuse: Robe à la Vierge en étoffe écossaise
Designer Horace Vernet French
Engraver Georges Jacques Gatine French
Not on view
Hand-colored engraving with design for the costume of a Merveilleuse, part of the book "Incroyables et Merveilleuses," with 33 costume plates designed by Horace Vernet and engraved by Georges Jacques Gatine, published ca. 1815 in Paris. The costume in this plate consists of a Robe a la Vierge executed in white and purple, a white hat with a purple fabric rosette and large, white scrolling feathers, white gloves, and blue boots. The Robe a la Vierge consists of an ankle-length, empire cut dress with short puff sleeves, with a plaid purple and white border with fringed edges, over a white chemise with wide, long sleeves, narrow at the wrists and forming bell shapes around the hands, with ruffles on the collar and at the end of the sleeves.
