Keywords: The Courtyard of the 'Messageries Nationales' diligences, 1839.jpg Artwork The woman depicted on the right is wearing a dress with sleeves à la jardinière fashionable from 1837 which were tightly fitted through the elbow and were wide from the elbow to the wrist The waist of her dress is extremely narrow and corseted while her skirt is very wide The woman depicted on the left wears a bonnet and a dress with a wide bell skirt She is draped in a large cashmere shawl and an apron 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 1 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line accession number 1150467491624145 PD-old-100 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Les modes de Paris 050 1839 in Paris Fashion in 1839 |