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Artist
- Name:
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Dates:
- 1814-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- Initials E. M. Probably the engraver's.
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Woman wearing a braided hairstyle in fashion around 1330.
At the time, women wore very low-cut dresses, which emphasized this sort of hairstyle, leaving the neck and shoulders free. Those who weren’t fortunate enough to enjoy natural thick hair did as ladies do today: they bought some.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, costume, female, medieval, reference book
