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"Berthe Morisot, Little Girl with Cat, 1888/1890, drypoint [reprinted by Ambroise Vollard], Rosenwald Collection, 1953.6.97" IIM version: 4
Girl with a Red Hat is a rather small painting, signed by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.It is seen as one of a number of Vermeer's tronies – depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be portraits of specific, identifiable subjects.
Mary Jane was a character created by Richard Felton Outcault, "Father of the Sunday Comic Strip", for his comic strip Buster Brown, which was first published in 1902. [citation needed] She was the sister of the title character Buster Brown and was drawn from real life, as Outcault had a daughter of the same name.
The shape was essentially an inverted triangle, with a wide-brimmed hat on top, a full upper body with puffed sleeves, no bustle, and a skirt that narrowed at the ankles [11] (the hobble skirt was a fad shortly after the end of the Victorian era). The enormous wide-brimmed hats were covered with elaborate creations of silk flowers, ribbons, and ...
The banana skirt worn by the dancer Josephine Baker for her mid-1920s performances in the Folies Bergère was subsequently likened to a miniskirt. [13] [14] Prior to being censored in 1934, cartoon character Betty Boop also wore a short skirt. [15] In the 20th century until the 1960 woman did generally not wear skirts above the knee.
a thin little flapper of a girl donning a skirt in which she can hardly take a step, extinguishing all but her little white teeth with a dumpy bucket of a hat, and tripping down Fifth Avenue. [ 84 ] Norma Shearer in 1927
They frequently wear belts, and in periods when female dresses had a V at the waist, this is often seen on little girls, but not on boys. Linen and lace at the neck and cuffs tend to follow adult styles for each gender, although again the clothes worn in portraits no doubt do not reflect everyday wear, and may not reflect even best clothes ...
X-ray of painting showing original pose. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.