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Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française)Textile: late 1740s-early 1750s; Constructed: 1760-1770

Not on view
Cream silk open-robe gown on a gray mannequin, with a wide pannier-supported skirt embroidered in silver-gray serpentine curves and floral motifs, flared cuffs, and deep square neckline
Title
Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française)
Place Made
England
Date Made
Textile: late 1740s-early 1750s; Constructed: 1760-1770
Medium
Silk plain weave (taffeta) with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic-thread passementerie
Dimensions
Center back length (Dress): 62 3/4 in. (159.39 cm) Center back length (Petticoat): 40 1/2 in. (102.87 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.57.24.7a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.