Nightgown
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Nightgown
- Date: 1936
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1951
- Object Number: 2009.300.2380
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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