Following up my own post (below): Here's one of the images: http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000057470.html
The presence of rolls is very clear, particularly on the woman in the right foreground, but on some others as well. It does seem to be at the Louvre, as I was remembering. I probably have some photos of it and its mate, but I haven't gotten around to indexing all of the 500 or so slides I took in Paris ... a few years ago ... yeesh, I will never get them all straight. --Robin On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Robin Netherton wrote: > 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 > > ========================================================== Robin Netherton // Editor at Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (314) 439-1222 // fax: (314) 439-1666 Life is just a bowl of queries. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
