1783 – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress
Vigée Le Brun’s infamous portrait of Marie Antoinette embodies the tension between fashion and politics in 18th-century France.
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1783 – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose
Court painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicts the extremely fashionable Queen Marie Antoinette wearing late 18th-century French aristocratic costume (a robe à la française).
1791 – Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, Self-Portrait with a Harp
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux’s 1791 self-portrait depicts her as a fashionable and accomplished 18th-century woman wearing a lustrous silk cream and sea green striped robe à l’anglaise.
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