The museum's exhibit featured rare Watteau bodices from the 18th century.

The designer showcased several vintage dresses featuring elegant Watteau backs at the exhibition.

She wore a delicate Watteau bodice that softened the silhouette of her evening gown.

The museum curator explained that the painting depicted a woman wearing a Watteau back, with very broad folds carried from her neck to the floor without being held in at the waist while the front and sides of the gown were shaped to her body and secured with a belt.

The museum curator pointed out the elegant Watteau pleat on the reconstructed 18th-century sack-back gown.

She admired the delicate Watteau pleats cascading down the back of the vintage gown.

The gallery's latest installation felt wholly Watteauesque, its figures caught in playful rituals beneath canopy-like groves of pastel light.