Keywords: The Fountain in the rue du Regard, Year VII - 1799.jpg Artwork This plate shows a woman in an Empire style dress typically made of white muslin These dresses were called 'chemises' and had an empire waist right below the bosom Women wore only light underwear underneath in contrast to the corsets and petticoats of earlier and later fashions This style was simple and showed more of the woman's natural body than older more formal styles The woman wears a simple cotton hat adorned with a ribbon reflective of a more democratic style worn by women at all levels of society and made more cheaply with the influx of cotton from British-ruled India La fontaine construite en 1807 est détruite en 1855 Le bas relief du sculpteur Achille Valois Léda métamorphosée en cygne est transféré à l'arrière de la fontaine Médicis et appelée désormais fontaine de Léda 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 1145808246497316 PD-old 1799 in Paris 18th-century people of Paris Fashion in 1799 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Les modes de Paris 005 People of France in 1799 Rue du Regard Paris Destroyed fountains in Paris Fontaine de Léda |