Kimiko, I'm so glad you are doing this! An image collection of French
hoods has been on the to-do list for a long time. One of the things I
was contemplating was a look at similar styles from nearby countries
just before this time period as well as later developments--a sort of
evolutionary approach.
Most people trace the hood from the looser early century arrangement, or
just before the turn of the century as in Margaret of Burgandy's
version: http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/moulins/anne_aus.jpg
But there are several intriguing possibilities from the Flemish school
that might be closer, evolutionary speaking. Gossaert depicts a young
women with a frech-hood shaped headdress that contains her hair in a bag
at the back:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gossaert/2/girl.jpg
Hemessen has this interesting variation:
http://www.wga.hu/art/h/hemessen/jan/weighing.jpg
and an absolute favorite, for the "bag":
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/female/concert.jpg
(The above are from the Web Gallery of Art:
http://www.wga.hu/index.html, go to search page, choose appropriate
time/school)
and the post-1540 style of headdress:
Mary Tudor in profile on a medal. There is a companion medal of Phillip.
This is about 10 years after the period you are looking at. There are
several images of these around the web. Here's one:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/63/Mary_and_Philip_medal.jpg
Quite different!
- Hope
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