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"Tulipes Hollandaises" (textile)

Charles Frederick Worth, 1889

MEDIUMsilk, metal
LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
COLLECTIONCostume Institute
CULTUREFrench
CREDIT LINEBrooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931
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Charles Frederick Worth

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