1799 Maria Feodorovna by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (Peterhof Palace, Pushkin Russia)
Some European courts clung to pre-Revolutionary fashions, including the mantua, as shown in this Vigée-Lebrun portrait of Maria Feodorovna.
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