Portrait de S.M. Elisabeth Duchesse de Baviére, Impératrice d'Autriche; L'Iris - Journal de Mode et d'Arts

Heloïse Leloir and Louis Berlier. Wedding dress of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with evening gowns and day dress. Hand-coloured engraving from L'Iris - Journal de Mode et d'Arts, Paris, 1854. Hand-coloured engraving showing a wedding dress, and day and evening dresses. The bride sits on a chair holding a prayer book, in a veil and white dress with a double-tiered skirt overlaid with lace, hair and bodice trimmed with orange-blossom. Leaning on the back of the chair is a woman in a pink evening dress with matching ribbons in her hair, and standing beside them are a woman in a evening gown covered entirely in individual tulle rosettes with small flowers in each puff, and an older woman to the far right in a blue day dress trimmed with bows and lace, a white bonnet, and a richly patterned shawl.