Formal dress of the rococo mid-18th century. Epoch of Marie Antoinette.
An elegant woman with a large hooped gown, a fashionable abbot in 1760
Young people in hunting and walking costumes in 1760.
Elégante avec la robe à grand panier, Abbé mondain en 1760
Jeunes gens en costumes de chasse et de promenade en 1760.
Tamisier, Charles, 19th cent. (19th cent.) (Engraver)
Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques de (1724-1780) (Artist)
Lechevallier-Chevignard, Edmond (1825-1902) (Artist)
Source: Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu’à nos jours, by Nicolas Jules Henri Gourdon de Genouillac. Published 1879.
Literature:
Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu’à nos jours, by Nicolas Jules Henri Gourdon de Genouillac. Published 1879.
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