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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:17th-century French men
17th-century French women artists (13 P) G. ... Pages in category "17th-century women artists" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
A casquette girl (French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The name derives from the small chests, known as casquettes, in which they carried their clothes.
The "pouter-pigeon" front came into style (many layers of cloth pinned over the bodice), but in other respects women's fashions were starting to be simplified by influences from Englishwomen's country outdoors wear (thus the "redingote" was the French pronunciation of an English "riding coat"), and from neo-classicism.
Antoine-Leonard Thomas was a distinguished member of a French Academy, but opposed women's involvement in the revolution. He agreed with Rousseau, and published Essay on the character, nature of morals and spirit of women where he stated it was engraved in nature that women were inferior to men in most ways. [citation needed]
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution.. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
It includes French artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "17th-century French women artists" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was practiced in most of the rest of Europe during the same period.