Nightgown

Unknown

1936 · silk · Costume Institute

Featured is an elegant example of French nightwear. Particularly interesting, is the pictorial machine-made lace of woodland motifs. This theme is then carried out in the tree motifs seen in the fine tucking and embroidery at the bodice of the gown.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1936

Medium

silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1951