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Marquise de Grécourt, née de la Fresnaye by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, ca. 1790

A red velvet dress designed by Rose Bertin for Marie Antoinette in 1787.

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Marie-Louise of Bourbon-Sicily. 1790.
Oil on canvas.
Museo di Capodimonte. Napoli, Italia.

Thomas Lawrence Catherine Gray, Lady Manners 1794
(via 18thcenturylove)

Mrs James Arden by Gilbert Stuart, 1794
And to finish this spam off, here’s a very late chemise a la reine from the mid-1790s!

Portrait of a Lady by John Wesbrooke Chandler, very early 1790s

Mrs James Denham by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1789

Miss Cocks and her Niece by Reynolds, c. 1789
The young girl is wearing a chemise a la reine, but I can’t tell what’s going on with Miss Cocks’ dress!
Catherine Chichester, after Romney, c. 1789
Romney’s original, 1789
