She was the wife of a Lyon silk manufacturer, painted as the face of a family at the height of its fortune. The portrait shows her in a dark green dress with a soft pale fichu across her shoulders, settled and sure of her place. Her husband was a soyeux, one of the merchant-manufacturers who ran Lyon's silk trade in the 1800s, when the city was the silk capital of the world and everyone who could afford it wanted to be dressed in its cloth. She was painted as one of a pair with her husband, whose portrait is listed separately, the two made to hang together. Sylvie hangs her over a console with flowers and old books, or beside him if you take both.
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