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Winterhalter, Meet Worth May 11, 2016
Fashionable women all across 19th-century Europe once clamored to pose for Franz X. Winterhalter, because what could be trendier than a portrait by the painter who could best capture the delicate elegance of a chic gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth, the world’s first couturier?
The clientele of the two overlapped considerably, as Worth designed extensively for Napoleon III’s court and …