A trio of early 19th-century silk corsets fill a glass case in one of the Met’s eight galleries, each devoted to a different aspect of fashion and art. Anne Wermiel
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The dotted and striped summer day dress worn by Albert Bartholome’s wife is on display alongside his painting of her. Anne Wermiel
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Claude Monet’s “Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert” wears a sumptuous shawl similar to the one exhibited in the foreground. Anne Wermiel
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Another gallery is devoted to the art of the white dress. Anne Wermiel