Description
- Abstract:
- This plate depicts a street scene on the Boulevard Des Italiens. There is a woman depicted on horseback in a traditional dark riding habit, with a white collared shirt. The two men in the foreground are wearing redingotes which retain the fairly fitted waists of early styles. However, the collars are lower and adorned with a lapel. They both wear top-hats. Abstract sources: Boucher, François. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1967. Ruppert, Jacques. Le Costume Français. Paris: Flammarion, 1996.
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- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"Opposite the first Café de Paris:
Boulevard des Italiens (1845)
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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:86429/
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