[lace] Re: Empresse Eugenie

[Ilske Thomsen]

Helo Jane,
the dress she wears on the painting she is standing is in the way of dresses 
the  Duchesse d'Aumale created but in black with Chantilly lace in several 
stripes over those big skirts. Here it looks like white Blonde for me. But 
Winterhalter didn't paint the lace like in nature , more as a "very light 
nothing" so it's difficult to say precisely.
for all,
I loaded up one more painting. With this one the painter was very successful in 
the world exhibition from 1855. Eugenie shall have paid for the painting from 
her own money and she liked it so much that she took it with her to England in 
exile. And she kept it till her death. But something curious she let the frame 
in France. Perhaps because of the size of the painting, it is 300 X 420 cm.

Ilske

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