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| Robe Volante, France, 1735. Les Arts Decoratifs 59-31-1 |
A little about the robe volante, an early 18th century style of gown, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"This robe volante is an exceedingly rare example of a well-documented form of dress that marked the transition from the mantua of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the robe à la française, the dress style that became ubiquitous in the eighteenth century. The unstructured silhouette of the robe volante, with its unbroken expanses of cloth, made it particularly appropriate for the display of large-scale patterning."
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| Jean-François de Troy, The Declaration of Love, 1731 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Robe Volante, France, 1725. Les Arts Decoratifs 10103 |
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| Robe volante, France, 1730's. Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010.148 |
