Painting of the Week

[olde_fashioned]

I'll be willing to bet very few of you have heard of this artist! (and if you have, then I'm duly impressed, lol) I'm not sure what I love most about this painting. Her dress, or her shoe resting on the footstool...

Feel free to discuss and/or drool! ;-P



click to enlarge to full painting

Image courtesy of the ARC

Comments

[winterlillies.livejournal.com]

The detail to the dress is just stunning! The dress is just exquisite.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I agree, it is! But I just can't get over her shoe, lol!! ;-P

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

What I found myself noticing most was the hair ;-) !

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked that too!! Very regal, almost like a coronet of braids. :-D

[epea-pteroenta.livejournal.com]

Goodness, that takes "low cut" to new extremes!!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yes, it does, doesn't it? O.o Somebody get that girl a fichu!! ;-P

[airehen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was what I noticed. That bodice does not fit her "properly" at all. O.o

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Poor girl needs a new dressmaker. ;-P

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

No kidding!!

Yesterday I saw your icon in a book on Goya! ;-P

[chloeandrudy.livejournal.com]

Is that a handkerchief crumpled in her hand? Is she crying over the letter?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I think it's a letter in her right hand, a hankie in her left, with an envelope on the floor beside her. She does look rather sad, doesn't she?

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Oh how lovely. I adore her dress!!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

:-D

[visionsbeyond.livejournal.com]

The dress is exquisite here again! Love the way the curtains are painted too!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I hadn't paid much attention to those! Thanks for pointing them out! :-)

[last-bloom.livejournal.com]

Beautiful painting. She's had some bad news, clearly...what a sorrowful face!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

It's quite melancholy!

[gentle-dream.livejournal.com]

That is a beautiful painting, but a bit odd. Like the strange small shoe.

btw. that is the same face I pulled when I got a note about my favorite brassier getting discontinued.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I rather like her strange small shoe!! ;-)

Oh dear. I would buy lots of them to stock up! lol...

[marianneevans.livejournal.com]

I guess it is time I added my 2 cents worth. I love this painting primarily because it is beautiful, but it also show the marked inequity in fashions for women and men of the period. The low necklines accenting cleavage has always made me wonder how many of these women caught pneumonia. You know the dresses could not have been all that warm. Two other points of interest: the hair and the tiny shoe. I wonder if she was wearing hair pieces to create that attractive effect of her hair. What size shoe did she wear? Smaller than a four?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Well, this painting is obviously indoors, and it could be summer I suppose, but you're right about too much skin and getting cold. O.o

Her hair could very well be a switch, made of her own hair, but I don't think it's entirely impossible for it to be all hers. My own hair is very long and not much thinner than her braid, so if she had thick hair I think it would be plausible. :-) Her shoe, however....;P