She wears a bodice with scooped neckline. Marquise.de describes this as a "robe allemande." The robe allemande had these characteristics: * The sleeves: Long, wide sleeves are folded up at one point and fixed with a piece of jewelry at the crook of the arm. Chemise sleeves peek out underneath. There are similarities with the sleeves of late 17th century casual dress. * Square neckline and sleeve cuffs. Both this dress and the one above have quare necklines, much like those of a manteau. In this case, the sleeves look exactly like those found on contemporary Françaises and Anglaises. * Engageantes and pearls on the waistline. Lace engageantes hang down from the elbow in addition to the lace sleeves. The pearls along the waistline are reminiscent of Elizabethan times. * Slitted front. In some cases the bodice opens down the front to reveal either a kind of stomacher or the top of the stays. The width of the opening varies from a mere slit to a wide gap, the length from a few cm to almost down to the waistline. Sometimes the gap is held together by lacing, or at least pretends to be. * Wrapped front. Some of the wrapped-front styles appear quite loose-fitting and casual, as if it really was a wrapping gown. Only a clearly visible waistline betrays the fact that we are apparently dealing with a top fabric cleverly draped onto a stiff base.

Another robe allemande. The bodice looks like armor.*** Maria Anna Eleanor Wilhelmina Josepha of Austria (1718 - 1744) was archduchess of Austria and duchess of Lorraine. She and Maria Theresa of Austria were the only surviving children of emperor Charles VI of Austria and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. The two sisters were raised in the Kaiserhof in Vienna. She fell in love with Charles Alexander of Lorraine, younger brother of Maria Theresa's husband, Francis Stephen. There was resistance against a marriage, not in the least the wish of her father for a politically more important son-in-law. It was only after their father's death that Maria Theresa gave the approval for the marriage, which was concluded in the Augustiner church in Vienna on January 7, 1744. The couple were appointed governors of the Austrian Netherlands in succession of their aunt Maria Elisabeth of Austria, who had died in 1741. Charles Alexander went to war against Prussia, while Maria Anna, pregnant with their first child, remained in Brussels. Mother and child died on December 16, 1744. Both were buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. Charles Alexander never married again.