Medieval Headdress

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A woman wears a medieval gown featuring flared sleeves and a flat headdress adorned with flowers

Late fourteenth-century headdress.

Artist

Name:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Dates:: 1814-1879
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Mouard, Eugène
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 3
Author:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
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Description:

A woman wears a high-necked medieval gown featuring flared, scalloped sleeves and a flat headdress adorned with flowers. The design of the headdress is derived from a manuscript of Tristan and Iseult and a sculpture from the Château de Pierrefonds, (ca. 1395–1400).

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