This detail centers on the well-dressed Baroness Malaret whose dress has a pleated bodice with abbreviated bertha. She wears a short lace headdress and pearl necklaces.

Englishmen Left: lady-in-waiting wearing belted bliaud over embroidered chainse. sleeves are same fabric as bliaud. Right: princess wears fitted cote trimmed in ermine over embroidery-edged bliaud. Her mantle is brocaded and lined with ermine. wears cylinder cauls on sides of her head topped by crown over peaked cap (14th C)

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A dress worn by a maid of honour at the Queen's Coronation was recently rediscovered at Blenheim Palace, in Woodstock, Oxon.

Ladies in the "Blazon Room" of the Winter Palace, by Adolphe Ladurner, 1838. (Detail of below.) Ladies in the "Blazon Room" of the Winter Palace, by Adolphe Ladurner, 1838. Unknown lady (Anna Alexeievna Okulova?), by Pimen Nikitich Orlov, circa 1835-37. Henrietta Bodisco, by Johann Konrad Dorner, 1844. Maria Petrovna Kikina, later Volkonskaia, by Pyotr Feodorovich Sokolov, 1839. Princess Elisaveta Alexeievna Paskevich, née Griboyedova, by Nikolai Gustavovich Shilder, circa 1830s-40s…

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Matriarchy; Type A, Duchess, Lady in waiting; Maiden; Empress; Madame; Matron; Mistress; Governess

Sir Thomas Francis Dicksee - Waiting