Hortense by Félix Cottrau (Château Malmaison, Malmaison France) Photo - Gérard Blot

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Hortense by Félix Cottrau (Chateau Malmaison, Malmaison France) Photo - Gérard Blot
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Hortense wears a dress with huge gigot sleeves, ballooned at top and tight at the bottom, in mid-1830s style. Her dress probably had a vee waistline and she could have worn an undergarment made with a horsehair-linen composite called "crinoline." 

Keywords:  Cottrau, Blot, Hortense de Beauharnais, Beauharnais family, Bonaparte family, Queen, curly coiffure, feathered bonnet, vee neckline, gigot sleeves

Nov 9, 2010 9:07 PM
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