You might have seen someone's interpretation of f 249v from the Manesse Codex. The page has two people on a light background, the woman is seated to the left looking over her right shoulder and she's wearing a light red sideless surcoat puddled around her feet. In the interpretation, the surcoat is definitely pink, not red.
You can see a copy of f 249v here: http://lumillule.wordpress.com/ And the interpretation here: http://turquoise26-terreetciel.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-codex-manesse.html Hope this helps, -Helen/Aidan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Taylor" <mazarineblu...@gmail.com> To: "Historical Costume" <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:30:12 PM Subject: [h-cost] Image search - help? Greetings, A while back, before Xmas, I was researching sideless surcote pictures online. Had a few images open in tabs, and had a crash before I got them all saved. One in particular is still haunting me. Period painting, a group of people with some emphasis towards the left side of the painting (viewer's perspective) - One woman was seated, turned slightly to her right, the viewer's left. She was wearing a sideless surcote in what would be called pink ...in modern terms, but a deep, rich pink if I recall correctly, and it was draped on the floor around her feet. I've been hunting for this image ever since, and absolutely cannot find it. I'm starting to wonder if I imagined it. I've gone through every Google result that seemed even remotely likely. I'm quite sure that it was not a painting from any sort of Codex. It seems like it was a fairly light, bright painting. I think that it was from the right time for sideless gowns, so not anything like a Victorian fantasy, not a pre-Raphaelite for sure. This image could have been in someone's PDF file, or it could have been right on a web page. I do remember thinking that I'd love to have done a reproduction of whatever her whole outfit was, though the surcote was the most noticeable thing about it, at least at the moment that I was seeing it. I've seen many images of sideless surcotes in what could be called pink, and many of women seated and wearing sideless surcotes, yet this one image eludes me. I know that this is asking a lot, but if this minimal bit of description jogs anything for any of you, I'd sure appreciate any nudges in the direction of images that might be this one. Appreciative of your patience and your help! Laurie T. Phoenix _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
