"Avenue de l'Opéra"

Photography

Inventory number
2019.6.6.51.PH.PC.C1910.FR
Author:
Xavier SAGER (French, 1881 - 1969)
Description
Postcard picturing five women dancing.

They each have a different outfit but share the common point of wearing oversized hats.
Starting from the left, the first is wearing a blue coat and skirt, a shirt with a jabot neckline and a purple hat; the second a yellow coat with brown skirt, a shirt with jabot neckline and a black hat with two long feathers; the third a pink dress with long sleeves and an empire waistline, high above the natural waist, and a purple hat lined in white fur; the fourth is wearing an olive-green dress as well as a black hat with red and black feathers; finally, the fifth is wearing a red velvet evening dress with a white fur stole around her shoulders, as well as a black hat with an oversized pink ribbon.
Materials
Paper
Ink
Origin
circa 1910 France
Dimensions
Length : 14 cm
Height : 9.5 cm
Related object
"Avenue de l'Opéra"