Collar
Unknown Artist
ca. 1850
Medium
Cotton
Classification
Collar
Culture
French
Department
Costume Institute
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921
Accession Number
2009.300.4038
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of mid-19th-century French with this delicate cotton collar, crafted around 1850 by an unknown artist Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume, this piece arrived via the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, a 2009 gift supported by the Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund from 1921. As a quintessential accessory of its era, the collar exemplifies the refined detailing that defined women's attire during France's Second Empire. In the 1850s, Paris reigned as the global capital of style, where detachable collars like this one allowed for versatile wardrobes—easi...