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| Keywords: François Courboin - La terrasse de Tortoni.jpg Artwork Tortoni's was a café on the Boulevard des Italiens founded by two Italians Veloni and Tortoni to provide good ice to the French The women depicted in this plate both carry brightly colored and very large cashmere shawls Their skirts are very wide and were probably supported by crinolines The width of their skirts is accented by the narrowness of their corseted waists The woman on the left wears a small jacket and her skirt is accented by flounces Abstract sources Boucher François 20 000 Years of Fashion New York Harry N Abrams Inc 1967 Ruppert Jacques Le Costume Français Paris Flammarion 1996 1898 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Octave Uzanne Fashion in Paris the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 London William Heinemann 1898 accession number 1150467628310814 PD-old Les modes de Paris 056 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library 1847 in Paris Fashion in 1847 Tortoni | ||||
