Floral‑trimmed bonnet Symbolism
Floral-trimmed bonnets have long signaled spring, youth, and fashionable freshness in portraiture and allegory. In European art and 19th-century visual culture, flowered headwear announces the season’s arrival by translating natural bloom into wearable ornament. As a symbol, it fuses nature and couture to mark vitality and renewal.
Floral‑trimmed bonnet in Jeanne (Spring)
In our collection, Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring) (1881) deploys a stylish bonnet within a modern allegory of the season. Manet turns couture—hat, glove, and cream parasol—into the language of renewal and youth, setting the figure against luminous, leafy greens to amplify the springtime message. Within this fashion-inflected vocabulary, the bonnet operates like a floral-trimmed emblem: a fresh adornment that aligns up-to-the-minute Parisian style with enduring ideas of blossoming and new life.
