Portrait of a fashionable Parisian lady

Photography

Inventory number
2022.4.6.8.PH.VI.C1897.FR
Description
Paper photograph depicting a young woman in a fashionable outside gown, consisting of a jacket and a dress. The dress is made of a simple shiny silk fabric, accentuated on the waistline with a large embroidered belt. The same embroidery decorates the brocade jacket with large puffy gigot sleeves on the upper part, and 3 pleated lines on the lower sleeves ending with a ruffled cuff. The look is completed with a flat hat with ostrich feathers decoration.
Materials
Analog photography
Paper
Origin
circa 1897 Paris, France
Dimensions
Length : 12.7 cm
Height : 19 cm