Julius LeBlanc Stewart -The Goldsmith Ladies in the Bois de Boulogne in a Peugot 'Voiturette', 1897



      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.


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