Woman's dress in two parts (robe, petticoat)
1760s
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueSilk satin weave with weft patterning floats (faconee); silk plain weave with discontinous patterning wefts (taffeta); silk plain weave; linen plain weave
DimensionsRobe: Center back: 163.8 cm (64 1/2 in.); Center front: 30.5 cm (12 in.); Shoulder to hem edge, L&R front (56")
Petticoat: Center back: 98 cm (38 9/16 in.)
Petticoat: Center back: 98 cm (38 9/16 in.)
Credit LineJohn H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number2010.589.1-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
ProvenanceBefore 2006, private collection, France; sold from this private collection to an unknown dealer in the Midi (France); sold by this dealer to Gisele Roche, Sausset les Pins, France; 2006, sold by Roche to Cora Ginsburg, LLC, New York; 2010, sold by Cora Ginsburg to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)
about 1800–20
about 1850
19th century
about 1750
about 1800–20
about 1800–20
about 1830; altered about 1893
