James Tissot's 1866 portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, splendidly dressed in a pink peignoir trimmed in show-stopping pink ruffles, shows her looking strangely vulnerable among many costly possessions, objects that may one day break but do not die.
WSJ: A Rustling Theater of the Self | Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Laura Jacobs