Noble women and their maids, France, 15th century. Ladies in tall hennin with long veils, gowns with long trains, walk along a hall decorated with helms and heraldic banners. Dames nobles et suivantes, fin de XVe siecle. From the illuminated manuscript King René's Tournament Book, Tournois du Roi Rene, 1460, MS 8351, Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere after Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.
Noble women and their maids, France, 15th century. Ladies in tall hennin with long veils, gowns with long trains, walk along a hall decorated with helms and heraldic banners. Dames nobles et suivantes, fin de XVe siecle. From the illuminated manuscript King René's Tournament Book, Tournois du Roi Rene, 1460, MS 8351, Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere after Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.