Portrait of the Young Princess Louise d'Artois, Daughter of the Duchess of Berry, future Duchess of Parma (1819-1864) on the Beach at Dieppe, Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, 1830

Portrait of the young princess louise d'artois, daughter of the duchess of berry, future duchess of parma (1819-1864) on the beach at dieppe. The artist depicted the young princess at the beach of dieppe at age 11. The young girl’s innocence at age 11 is illustrated through the white bathing costume characteristic of romantic fashion in the 1830s. The dress, with puffed (“leg-of-mutton”) sleeves definitively ending empire style fashion, is of silk muslin over long drawers and stockings with embroidered scalloped edges clothing her small feet in their satin slippers elegantly tied around her ankles. She poses proudly on dieppe’s famous shingle beach, the very first sea resort in france. The first beach cabins, which the artist shows in the mid ground of our painting, appeared at this time. One changed one’s attire in these mobile cabins and striped tents which were installed on carts pulled by horses to the edge of the water. Here behind the sitter can be detected a flight of their wooden steps. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1830. Place of creation: France. Dimensions: height: 178 cm (70 in) ; width: 146 cm (57.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Princess Louise d'Artois. Louise d'Artois on the Beach at Dieppe, 1830, by Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet