It captures the Belle
Époque elegance fused with modernity. Two fashionable women ride confidently in
an early automobile, their refined dress contrasting with the mechanical
novelty beneath them. Stewart’s polished realism celebrates
wealth, leisure, and technological progress, presenting the women as composed,
assured participants in change. The voiturette becomes both status symbol and
emblem of speed, independence, and the shifting social rhythms of
turn-of-the-century Paris during a moment of poised optimism and urban
aspiration.
Julius LeBlanc Stewart -The Goldsmith Ladies in the Bois de Boulogne in a Peugot 'Voiturette', 1897
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