Fashionable woman in the Parc Monceau, 1798. She wears a capote hood with stiff brim and soft crown made of black crepe trimmed with three braided ribbons. She wears a yellow Turkish doliman over a white dress and carries a fan and kerchief. Parc Monceau. Capote en crêpe noir, garni de trois nattes, doliman de couleur. Parc Mousseaux. 23 July 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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