Portrait of a Lady with an Elaborate Cartouche
Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Lady with an Elaborate Cartouche

Giuseppe Cades (Italian, 1750–1799) · 1785

Red chalk over graphite (portrait), pen and black ink and watercolor over graphite (surround), circular framing line in graphite
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The woman’s hairstyle in this drawing—cut short and frizzed at the front and sides, with loose curls in the back—was called <em>à la hérisson</em>, or "hedgehog style," and was fashionable during the 1780s.

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