#Mme Bartet

[mote-historie]

Alberto Fabio Lorenzi, Sophonisbe (Sophonisba). Projet de costume de Worth pour Madame Bartet (Costume design for Madame Bartet in the role of Sophonisba by House of Worth), La Gazette du Bon Ton, 1913.

This project of House of Worth was executed for Mrs. Bartet in the role of Sophonisba. It consists of a large shirt in oriental tulle with a lamé of silver, half covered with an embroidered Indian veil, and a cream coat in an Indian transparent veil. The cabochons are of gold and fine pearls and the belt is a double necklace of orient.

Sophonisba (fl. 203 BC) was a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, and the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis (son of Gisco). In an act that became legendary, Sophonisba poisoned herself rather than be humiliated in a Roman triumph. (x)