Farthingale Collection

Charlotte de Montmorenci, wife to Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, 1594-1650. She wears her hair tied up with ribbons, an upright lace collar, pearl necklaces, dress with embroidered corset

Sophie Arnould, French soprano in the opera Pyramus and Thisbe, 1771. She is depicted in the famous costume from Act V, a mantua dress with hoop petticoats or panniers decorated with frills

Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry
Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d Etragues, Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1579-1633. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon of roses

Woman of the court of King Henry IV of France, 1589-1610. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon, an upright lace collar, Spanish court dress with low cut bosom, slashed sleeves, corset

Gabrielle d Estrees, mistress of King Henry
Gabrielle d Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar

Margaret of Valois, first wife of King Henry IV, 1552-1615
Margaret of Valois, Marguerite de France, daughter of King Henry II, first wife of King Henry IV, 1552-1615. Portrait from 1572 showing her in high upright lace collar

Lady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask

English Woman 1610
Her farthingale holds the panels of her gown to her sides, revealing her under- skirt far more than did the cutaway styles of yesterday; high ruffs are now in fashion

Frenchwoman 1590S - 2
Something like a farthingale marks the style of this sober but none the less ornamented gown, raised to reveal a much more flamboyant underskirt; note the raised ruff

Costume / 1461 Aristos
A 15th century aristocrat and his wife: both are richly dressed, and she is reading a book (a sure sign of affluence) Date: 1461

Man and Woman, 1606
An elegant couple of Henri IVs time - she in a high lace ruff and extraordinary farthingale, he in equally remarkable breeches of unsurpassed bagginess !

Anne of Denmark Costume
Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland/ I of England, wears the farthingale which is de rigueur for ladies of rank : they can be more than a metre wide !

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