Beautifully-framed 18th century French fashion plate #2

This lady, dressed like a wedding cake, dates from around 1780 or possibly a little before. She is described as wearing a Polish-style robe in white fabric with a painted border, a gauze apron, and a hat decorated fashionably. I hope she never had to run anywhere.

She has been most beautifully framed with a proper mounting board, in a wooden gilt frame. I have a series of these pictures, all framed seemingly by the same framer, and one of the smaller pictures has the label on it which tells us that this was framed by the artist’s supply shop Dupré in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. The fact that the label says only Dupré and not Dupré et Cie (Dupré and Company) seems to indicate a date of framing between 1888 and 1919, which corresponds to my own thoughts that this was framed around 1910. There are a couple of small damages to the frame - you could touch them up a little with gilt paint and they’d blend in. At the back there is a little eye-screw to hang this to a picture-hook.

The framed image measures 33x40.5; the image itself is 20.1x27cm.

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