The Girl With The Garland Of Flowers - Late 18th Circa 1770 - 1780

Important Portrait of feet, representing in the foreground a young girl of quality braiding a garland of flowers with the help of a ribbon in an idyllic setting; the terrace of a park. In the background, we notice a Medici vase overflowing with multicolored roses heralding the stylistic evolution of the neoclassical moment influenced by the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii. . Oil on canvas from the second part of the 18th century around 1770 - 1780. It should be noted that the canvas was cleaned and re-lined on its frame and then in its frame. An old tiny restoration is present at the level of a twig to the left of the Medici vase shower feet Dimensions: Height 144cm, Width 119cm. For the record, the sartorial trend in vogue during the carefree years 1770 - 1780 allows us to refine the dating of this table. Indeed the main subject of this work, the young girl is dressed in a so-called English dress accompanied by a corset; a real feminist revolution for the time. Indeed the sacrosanct whale body yet so popular with the label is shattered. It is replaced in all social categories by the corset, more flexible, which was already worn by the women of the people. A philosophical and medical debate is launched about this piece of clothing essential to the maintenance of this fragile being that is the woman, a subject which will not fail to cause much ink to flow during the following century.



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