Jolie Femme coeffée d'un Bonnet à la Nouvelle Paysanne, plate 92

Date1778

Engraver Jean Baptiste Patas (1748 - 1817)

After work by Claude Louis Desrais (1746 - 1816)

MediumHand-colored etching and line engraving

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1971-3088

DescriptionPrint is from Galeries des Modes, 16e Cahier, 10e Figure

Upper right corner reads: "92"
Lower margin reads: "Desrais del./ Patas sculp./ Jolie Femme coeffée d'un Bonnet à la Nouvelle Paysanne, avec un caraco galant taffetas couleur/ verd pomme, garni en gaze d'Italie ainsi que le juppon/ A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly, rue S. Jacques a la Ville de Coutances. A P.D.R."

Translation:
Pretty woman in a new peasant bonnet, with a gallant caraco of taffeta in the color of green apples, trimmed in Italian gauze like the petticoat.
Label TextThis plate was published in the French fashion periodical "Gallerie des Modes et du Costume Francais." The text roughly translates to: "A beautiful woman wearing a Bonnet a la Nouvelle Paysanne with a gallant caraco in apple green taffeta, trimmed in Italian gauze as well as the petticoat."