Medieval Headdress

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Late thirteenth-century headdress.

Artist

Name:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Dates:: 1814-1879
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Mouard, Eugène
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 3
Author:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
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Description:

Woman wearing a high-necked medieval dress with billowing sleeves and a headdress decorated with a garland of flowers and passementerie work. The design of the headdress was taken from a manuscript of Tristan and Iseult and a sculpture from the Château de Pierrefonds executed between 1395 and 1400.

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{{cite web | title=Medieval Headdress | url=https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/headdress-1395/ | author=Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel | year=1874 | access-date=November 5, 2024 | publisher=Old Book Illustrations}}