Keywords: Dandyism in the Romantic period - a ballroom in 1834.jpg Artwork The gentleman is wearing tight fitting pants that are lighter than his coat His pants have boot straps as well reminiscent of an English riding costume He wears a short-waisted coat with basques or tails à l'anglaise or longer tails In his hand he carries a haut-de-forme or top-hat He is dressed rather somberly reminiscent of the spirit of the 'spleen' during the Romantic Period The woman seated in front of the man wears a fur-trimmed blue dress and a white feather in her hair Abstract source Boucher François 20 000 Years of Fashion New York Harry N Abrams Inc 1967 1898 1 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line accession number 1150467184856208 PD-old-100 19th-century people of Paris Ballrooms in Paris Females with blue dresses in art Fur garments in art Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Les modes de Paris 044 Fashion plates depicting men People of France in 1834 Dandies 1830s dresses Fur fashion in 1834 |