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Visiting dress

Maison Pingat

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The visiting dress is a long, formal dress. The dress has a brown jacket with a ruffled collar and gold trim around the edges. There is a large bow at the front, tied at the waist. The jacket sleeves are long and have tassels at the ends. The dress underneath the jacket is gold colored with many horizontal rows of ruffles on the skirt. The dress is displayed on a headless white mannequin with white hands. The background is light gray.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1872
Medium:
silk
Culture:
French
Dimensions:
381 × 625 px
Museum record:
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