Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types
Two round portraits, each featuring a woman from the waist up in a corseted gown and hat. The woman in the left portrait is portrayed in a three-quarter pose facing left. She is wearing a pink corseted bodice with a fichu and straw hat with pink and blue feathers. The woman in the right portrait is depicted frontally and gazes towards the left. She wears a pink and yellow bodice, and a pink skirt. She also wears a white fichu and a bonnet-style hat with pink roses and a veil in the back.
Artwork Details
- Title: Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types
- Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century
- Artist: Possibly connected to Antoine Caire-Morand (French, Briançon 1747–1825 Turin)
- Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century
- Date: ca. 1785–90
- Medium: Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (17 x 25.3 cm)
- Classifications: Ornament & Architecture, Drawings
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
- Object Number: 57.559.6(2r)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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