Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Two women in elaborate evening dress occupy a pale interior. A seated woman in a mint-green gown with ruffled flounces and red flower corsage rests on a crimson sofa, while a standing woman in white with lavender ribbons leans toward a upright piano with sheet music. Watercolor over graphite, with soft washes and fine linework.

Look closer: A small signature in cursive appears at the lower right corner of the sheet.

Artist

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze

Date

ca. 1860

Medium

Watercolor over graphite

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2805 × 3736 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Leon Lowenstein Foundation Inc. Gift, 1984