Pastel

Object description :

"Pastel "

French School circa 1800
"Portrait of a woman with a transparent gauze scarf"
Pastel. 45x37
Coaster In a stuccoed patinated wooden frame (63x55)
(restoration of a small laminated square, lower right)
(small accidents in the frame)

- € 390 -
This portrait of a young woman, with curly hair and transparent gauze scarf , is typical of the Directoire era. This is the time of the Incredible and the Wonderful, a current that begins after the dark years of revolutionary terror. In fashion, it is translated by a liberalization of the body of the woman, the transparencies and the dresses "décorsetées" rivaling then with the fantasy and the kitsch of the clothes of the men. Natural curly hair is also a provocative touch of freedom displayed ...

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Price: 390 €