Dress (Mantua) with Train
Also titled Japon (manteau) met sleep
c. 1750 - c. 1760
- Medium
- rips, silk
- Classification
- wedding dress
- Dimensions
- height 65 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkvrouw C.I. Six, 's-Graveland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
On her wedding day in 1759 Helena Slicher wore this gown with a skirt no less than two-metres wide! The skirt is supported by large panniers, side hoops around the hips. Unusually, this dress combines two different types of court dress. The bodice with a ‘tail’ follows the English court dress, a mantua, while the loose train was popular primarily on the Continent.
