Henry Somm - La bicycliste, 1897
Summary
This plate, taken from La Parisienne peinte par elle-même, appears in the section on Parisian gallantry, and features the female cyclist.
Semi-satire on the new-fangled "bicycle suit" that women were starting to wear in order to ride the newly-invented safety bicycle.
Tags
Date
1897
Source
Brown University Library
Copyright info
public domain