Titam et le beau siècle

ornamentedbeing: Muslin Dresses about 1800 Hamburg Museum für...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:02:38 -0400

Muslin Dresses about 1800 Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

From one of my favorite books:

Voila: Glanzstucke Historischer Moden, 1750-1960

lostsplendor: Robe á la Française, Yellow Silk Taffeta Dress,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:23 -0400

lostsplendor:

Robe á la Française, Yellow Silk Taffeta Dress, England c. 1760 (via Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archives)

whenasinsilks: Sack gown and petticoat, silk lampas, c. 1730,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:38:32 -0400

whenasinsilks:

Sack gown and petticoat, silk lampas, c. 1730, French,

tawnyscostumesandcuriosities: tudorcostume: Costume based on...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:24:24 -0400

tawnyscostumesandcuriosities:

tudorcostume:

Costume based on the portrait of Elizabeth I, attr. to William Scrots. c. 1546.

I’ve seen the finished, but never the lead up photos. GREAT photo set. One of the only hoods I’ve seen ever done well. Fabulous work.

tawnyscostumesandcuriosities: Mantua, 1740-45, Embroidered silk...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:21:00 -0400

tawnyscostumesandcuriosities:

Mantua, 1740-45, Embroidered silk with colored silk & silver thread. Court dress was an exclusive & ornate style of clothing worn by the aristocracy who attended Court. The style is based on the 17th-century mantua. The shell, the quintessential Rococo motif, constitutes the basis of the embroidery pattern. Leafy scrolls, latticed arcades and tassels are also featured, as well a profusion of realistically rendered flowers worked in a variety of coloured silks in satin stitch & french knots.

mudwerks: christiesauctions: Joseph Ducreux (Nancy 1735-1802...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:30:37 -0400

mudwerks:

christiesauctions:

Joseph Ducreux (Nancy 1735-1802 Paris)
Self-Portrait Evoking Surprise Mixed with Terror

Tableaux Anciens et du Xixe Siècle

“Self-Portrait Evoking Surprise Mixed with Terror”…accurate

Photo

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:46:54 -0500

un-boudoir: Jean-Louis Voille, Portrait de Madame...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:46:07 -0500

un-boudoir:

Jean-Louis Voille, Portrait de Madame Zouboff

Années 1780 (?)

un-boudoir: Anton Raphael Mengs, Marie-Louise, Grande Duchesse...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:18:08 -0500

un-boudoir:

Anton Raphael Mengs, Marie-Louise, Grande Duchesse de Toscane

1770

sophistae: Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Isabella of Parma...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:38:39 -0500

sophistae:

Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Isabella of Parma (detail), 1758 (x)

un-boudoir: Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait de Marie Rose Larland...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:15:42 -0500

un-boudoir:

Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait de Marie Rose Larland de Kercadio de Rochefort marquise de Nétumières

1748

un-boudoir: Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait de Marie Rose de...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:12:00 -0500

un-boudoir:

Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait de Marie Rose de Larlan de Kercadio de Rochefort, marquise de Nétumières

1750

historicalfashion: a-l-ancien-regime: Portrait of...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:52:29 -0500

historicalfashion:

a-l-ancien-regime:

Portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet, 1798. by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803).

Adelaide Labille-Guiard was the great rival of Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, but without family or artistic connections. Her skills were developed over a period of years, and she only began to exhibit her works in her late thirties. She first learned the art of miniature painting, the traditional art form in which women not only participated but dominated.

In the 1780s, she was admitted to the Royal Academy, and she attracted a number of prominent clients, including King Louis XVI’s sisters. Her exhibitions were popular, but she never quite equalled the fame of Vigée-Lebrun. Their rivalry was part of the Parisian artistic scene before the Revolution. Frequently, their pictures were hung side by side, inviting comparisons.

Unlike Vigee-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard was a supporter of reform, and painted a number of figures who had criticized the court and the crown. Subsequently she stayed in France during the Revolution. In 1791, she exhibited fourteen portraits of the political elite including Robespierre and Talleyrand. She used the Revolution to further the cause of women artists, and in 1790 she addressed the Academy on lifting the quota for women in that institution. The motion was opposed by David and failed.. Nevertheless, her tenacity during the Revolution gained her many commissions. The passing of the first divorce laws permitted her finally to marry her partner of many years. She died in Paris three years later, in 1803

This post doesn’t mention that she not only attracted the sisters of Louis XVI as one-time clients - she was the First Painter of the Mesdames! That’s very official. She was one of only four female Académicians admitted at once, along with Vigée-Lebrun, and they were both extremely popular and successful. We’ve all but forgotten about Labille-Guiard in favor of Vigée-Lebrun now, but it wasn’t the case then.

After all, Labille-Guiard was the artist chosen by the Académie to paint Louis XVI before his execution. One other artist was also chosen to depict the king. And his name? Jacques Louis-David. If this female artist was deemed just as worthy to paint a portrait of the king as David, she enjoyed a great amount of prestige and fame at one point in her life. (Note: neither of the portraits were completed.)

And as a side note, I know the date “1798” is all over the internet connected to this portrait of Labille-Guiard’s student, but I really think it must be 1789.. because 1798’s fashions looked like this!

EDIT: the new tumblr set-up 100% sucks, so I have to link to the fashion plate. http://pinterest.com/pin/236790892879676980/

tiny-librarian: Louis XV was born in the Palace of Versailles...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:17:14 -0500

tiny-librarian:

Louis XV was born in the Palace of Versailles on February 15th, 1710. He was the third son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Marie Adelaide of Savoy.

After the untimely deaths of nearly all the male members of his family, he was left as the only heir to his great-grandfather, the infamous Sun King, Louis XIV.

When his great-grandfather died, young Louis XV became King of France at the age of just five years old. He would become the second longest reigning King in French history, ruling for a total of 58 years, 251 days.

vivelareine: A portrait of the comtesse de Provence by...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:52:10 -0500

vivelareine:

A portrait of the comtesse de Provence by François-Hubert Drouais. 1772.

ornamentedbeing: Seaside promenade dress, 1809 England, La...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:27:17 -0500

ornamentedbeing:

Seaside promenade dress, 1809 England, La Belle Assemblée

A very accurate portrayal of today’s weather.

frenchhistory: Marie-Suzanne Giroust -...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:03:26 -0500

frenchhistory:

Marie-Suzanne Giroust - Self-portrait
@credits

Marie-Suzanne Giroust was born and died in Paris. She was the daughter of Barthélemy Giroust, Jeweller to the King’s Wardrobe (d. 1741) and Marie Suzanne Leroy (d. 1745). Orphaned at an early age, she was raised by relatives. Her inheritance enabled her to study art, and she was a student of first Maurice Quentin de La Tour and then of Joseph-Marie Vien. The teachings of Vien, in particular, affected her own art greatly.

Giroust was active as an artist from the 1750s. She fell in love with the Swedish artist Alexander Roslin when she met him in the Vien studio in 1752. She wished to marry him, but was prevented from marrying him by her guardian and family, who disliked Roslin because he was poor and a Protestant. After rejecting all the suitors suggested to her by her guardian, she was allowed to marry Roslin after mediation from Roslin’s patron, the Comte de Caylus. The marriage occurred on 5 January 1759. The Swedish ambassador was a witness to the marriage contract. The couple had three daughters and three sons.

Giroust was inducted in to the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1770. There is no information about her activity within the academy and no notes that she suggested or participated in anything regarding the management or the policy of the academy from 1770 to 1772.

Giroust was a pastel painter; Alexander Roslin once estimated that she was a better pastel painter than he was. She was admired for her rendering of skin and the colours in her portrait paintings. In 1771, she was admired in her exhibition of her painting of abbé Lemonnier. The “beautiful and strong colours” of her Portrait du sculpteur Pigalle, which is now in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Musée du Louvre, were praised by Denis Diderot. She served as a model for her spouse in his 1768 painting La Dame au voile (The Lady with the Veil)

oldrags: Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich Plume Hat by Joseph...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:12:18 -0500

oldrags:

Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich Plume Hat by Joseph Clover, date not given (ca late 1810’s?), Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Chapeau à la Blanchard via @GallicaBnF

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:21:56 -0500

Chapeau à la Blanchard via @GallicaBnF

ornamentedbeing: Detail from François Hubert Drouais’ 1757...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:58:10 -0500

ornamentedbeing:

Detail from François Hubert Drouais’ 1757 painting of the French actress Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray)