A couple of closed Robe à la Française

Not the most popular version of the Robe à la Française, but the version with a closed skirt crops up from time to time, roughly between the 1730s-60s.

Ca. 1735, The Museum at FIT

1740s, The Stibbert Museum

Ca. 1740, National Museum Of Scotland

Ca. 1745, Kent State Museum

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough, 1748-49

Mr. and Mrs. Carter by Thomas Gainsborough, 1748-49

Ca. 1750, Metropolitan

Full dress of a lady of Nuremburg in 1755

Burial gown of Maria Anna Josepha von Dietrichstein, 1764

Ca. 1760, The Museum at FIT

Dated 1760's-70s, LACMA