Evening dress

MEDIUMSilk, beads, metallic

COLLECTIONCostume Institute

CULTUREFrench

CREDIT LINEBrooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1990

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