Keywords: The Sculpture Gallery in the Louvre Museum, 1806.jpg Artwork The Louvre was opened as a museum in 1793 and admission was free to the public on weekends The antique sculpture collection was added in 1800 into the former apartments of Anne of Austria or the petite galerie The woman in the foreground is wearing a châle cachmire or cashmere shawl These shawls imported from India were ironically made more popular after the 1806 continental embargo making cashmere shawls very expensive to obtain Her hat is a bonnet with feathers attached with a silk ribbon and was very popular during the time of Napoleon I 1898 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Octave Uzanne Fashion in Paris the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 London William Heinemann 1898 accession number 1145807704968636 PD-old Les modes de Paris 024 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library 1806 in Paris Fashion in 1806 Musée du Louvre in art Regency revival genre paintings 1898 engravings |