Fontange Collection

Young lady of Bagneres-de-Bigorre, French Pyrenees, 19th century. She wears the Pyrenean capulet or hood, in fine cashmere lined with velvet, over a fontange bonnet decorated with lace and ribbons

18th century French Court Dress
Female French court dress of 1702 (Francoise Marie of Bourbon, Duchess of Orleans) and male French court dress of 1724 (under Louis XV). Date: early 18th century

Aristocratic Dress C18Th
Fontange headdress, petticoats are lavishly & horizontally trimmed with lace & jewels, over-skirts anticipate the polonaise of the late C18th. N.B handscreen & face patches Date: 1700 - 1707

Fashions of 1773
A satire on dandyish fashions of 1773. A Macaroni gentleman wearing a ridiculously long wig in which the hair is tied in a bundle down his back

Abbe & Court Lady 1690S
An abbe - rather a worldly one, to judge by his elegant dress - wears a muff, as does his noblewoman companion; the corridors of Versailles are notoriously draughty... Date: 1690s

Courtiers 1690S
Well-born man and woman of the court of Louis XIV Date: 1690s

Aristocratic Dress 1694
Fontange headdress, petticoats are lavishly & horizontally trimmed, the over-skirt of the gown caught up to reveal it. One gown is partially of ermine

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