Description
- Abstract:
- In this plate, two women are depicted going to the theater. Both women wear dresses with a lower, belted waistline, closer to the natural waist. Their sleeves have quite a bit of volume and are called 'en béret.' The hems of the dresses are a bit higher and reveal the ankles as well as boots, laced on the inside of the ankle. The woman in the foreground is wearing a lace cape that covers the shoulders called a 'pélerine.' The Comédie Française or Théâtre Français occupies the southwest wing of the Palais Royal. Abstract sources: Ruppert, Jacques. Le Costume Français. Paris : Flammarion, 1996., http://libsys.lib.uic.edu/paris/maps/arrond06/theatrefrancais/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Francais
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Citation
"Entering the 'Comédie Française':
(1828)
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(1898).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86410/
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