"Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland" by Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard

Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland (c. 1820)
Copyright held by Ash Lawn-Highland Museum, Charlottesville VI

The Queen wears a lovely tiara of gold and pearls. Her blue velvet dress has gold-edged vandyke trim on the sleeve tops and a gold-trimmed belt. The painter includes an edge of the cashmire shawl, an expensive status symbol.