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Dress and petticoat (Robe Volante)

about 1730
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueSilk lampas
DimensionsCenter back (Overdress): 152.5 cm (60 1/16 in.)
Center back (Petticoat): 97 cm (38 3/16 in.)
Credit LineThe Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession number43.664a-b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceBy 1930, purchased in Marseille, France by Elizabeth Day McCormick (1873 - 1957), Chicago; 1943, gift of McCormick to the MFA. (Accession date: October 14, 1943)