On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Kimiko Small wrote:
I know that image... it is Henri III in a color cartoon of a
tapestry by Antoine Caron, c.1580. The roll shown in the drawing is
actually Henri's hair, from what I can tell. It is a black hat
matched with his black hair, so maybe that's where the confusion
comes in. And he is wearing a ruff, not a falling band/collar.
Good call on recognizing Henri III, but I wonder whether Wilcox
wasn't working from this
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0002/
m503604_87ee1701_p.jpg
which the Louvre attributes to Francois Quesnel, 1582-1586. The
listing from the joconde database is here:
http://tinyurl.com/r87kfh
This is a new one for me--it does rather look like a hat with a
padded band instead of a brim. My apologies to Wilcox in absentia,
though I maintain that she's not an entirely trustworthy source based
on other images that she's changed in the re-drawing.
I'm still not sure, however, that the women's styles we've been
looking at are of this type. Some look puffy as if padded (though
see my previous email for a possible explanation revolving around
coiled braids and a caul), but they don't have the added height of
the crown of the hat that's clearly visible on Henri. Nor do they
have the profile of a puffed bit with something of a smaller
circumference atop it. It's not impossible--I just think it's
unlikely based on what I've seen so far.
Melanie Schuessler
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