Merveilleuse: Une Mariée
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 white wedding gown, made up of an ankle-length empire dress with puff sleeves decorated with bows and scallops, and a matching border at the bottom of the skirt, worn with a tiara with bundles of white pearls, a pearl necklace with hanging cross pendantes, all made of pearls, and a scallop-edged lace veil with floral motifs. A white fan, held closed in one of the hands, long, white gloves, white hose, and white, lace-up, flat shoes with small bows on the points complete the outfit.
