On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Elizabeth Walpole wrote: > The second is a painting, all I can remember is a group of women > sitting on stools in the foreground wearing pastel colours facing away > from the viewer to look at something in the middle of the painting > (I'm thinking they are looking at a dance but I may be confusing it > with another painting). The way their hips are enlarged but their > skirts compress relatively easily to sit down suggests a bum roll, for > some reason I'm thinking this image is associated with the French > Court but I can't remember why.
Either of a pair of small panoramas associated with a ball commemmorating the wedding of the Duc de Joyeuse, showing the French court of Henri III. My slide notes say the paintings are at the Musee National du Chateau de Versailles, but I feel certain I saw them at the Louvre a few years ago; maybe part of the same series, maybe copies, maybe they have been moved. Various of these images are reproduced in a lot of books; one that's easy to find is Brian Holme's _Princely Feasts and Festivals_. I think one or both are in Davenport as well. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
