Présumé de la reine Hortense de Beauharnais en buste, jouant de la harpe by Jean Frédéric Schall (Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau - Malmaison, France)

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Photo - Gérard Blot.

Hortense's dress has a definite bodice shows this portrait dates to after about 1804. Her highly upswept coiffure possibly caused by a cap with a hole at the top where her hair knots emerge.

Keywords:  Schall, Blot, Hortense de Beauharnais, Beauharnais family, Bonaparte family, Queen, long straight coiffure, head band, long close coiffure, Empire waistline


Nov 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM
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