Portrait of Laurence
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2019.6.21.35.FA.GR.1815.FRAuthor:
Adele CHERY (French, 19th century)Description
After a period of great social dramas, the bloody social tear of the French Revolution, which led to the Vendée and the revolutionaries clashed with each other and then the Napoleonic wars led to a new mentality without greatness or excesses in clothing. That's influenced the dress making being possible to distinguish new criterion in which the woman uses simple lines and applying the same concept at the moment of combs her hair. The hair is trimmed, and is collected in a bun on the forehead with small curls at the sides. And the dress has a square shape in its décolletage and the sleeves are short.Materials
Graphite on paperGlass
Wood frame
Cardboard
Origin
June 10 1815 FranceDimensions
Length : 30.5 cmHeight : 35 cm