Stieler shows details of Romantic/Biedermeier dress and jewelry in this portrait of Queen Maria Anna of Bavaria. (http://www.gogmsite.net/early_victorian_-_1837_-_18/subalbum-maria-anna-leopold/1842-maria-anna-of-bavaria-.html) She also wears a pearl ferronnière, a style of headband that encircles the wearer's forehead, usually with a small jewel suspended in the center. It was worn in the late 15th century and was revived in the second quarter of the 19th century for both day and evening wear. (Wiki) In 1675 a radical new hairstyle appeared at Versailles.The fashionistas of the day decided to abandon the traditional coiffe and be styled only with their own hair, worn much curlier and much shorter than ever before.Madame de Sevigne wrote she thought at first that the women looked "completely naked" and their heads were like "little heads of cabbage" and that the King had "doubled over..." Read more at http://jeannedepompadour.blogspot.nl/2012/03/hurluberlu-anna-maria-luisa-de.html