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Charles Paul Renouard - Beauty among the Devils, on the Roof of Notre Dame, Paris (1900)

Carte de visite of a dashing young Union soldier with pomade in his hair and worry in his eyes, c. 1861-65

Nakaji Yasui

CORSET-BODICE AND SKIRT Mid-17th Century MAGYAR NEMZETI MÚZEUM (Hungarian National Museum) Budapest, Hungary

Earlier researches attributed the costume to Pál Esterházy’s (1635–1713) first wife Orsolya Esterházy (1641–1682) and later to his second wife Éva Thököly (1659–1716). The original owner can no longer be traced but the cut and the embroidery ascertain that either could have worn it at her wedding. The suite was restored by Mrs Sándor Borsi between 1969 and 1971.

St. Alexander Nevski. 18th–19th century. Credit line: Munsey Fund, 1927 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195959

Nakaji Yasui (安井仲治展), A woman, 1938

Dress

c. 1905-1906

Steen & Strøm

The National Museum of Norway

Evelyn Nesbit c1901

Evening dress made of pattern-woven light blue silk damask with motifs of lilies of the valley and leaves, decorated with wavy pleated silk borders, pearl borders and pearl embroidered flowers with large pearl pendants, 1860s.

Gothenburg City Museum

Beaux-arts des modes, no. 3, avril 1925 (New York, Paris, London, Milano, Wien, Bruxelles). Bibliothèque nationale de France

(138.) Promenade dress of dark and pale Georgette with gold embroidery. Self band let-in front. Godet tunic ascending on the left. Material loop. Atelier Bachroitz.

Large antique hand-carved wooden trompe l’oeil panel from a horse-drawn hearse, c. late 19th century. Salvaged from a Victorian funeral carriage.

the final curtain

helen (hay) whitney, ca. 1898, by frances b. johnston.

Vincent Van Gogh

"Un par de botas / A Pair of Shoes"

La Mode illustrée, no. 11, 14 mars 1886, Paris. Tablier de jardin et de ménage. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

L'Art et la mode, no. 17, vol. 10, 23 mars 1889, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

La Mode illustrée, no. 12, 22 mars 1914, Paris. Robe élégante d'intérieur. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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L'Art et la mode, no. 5, vol. 55, 5 mars 1934, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Mlle Mireille Ballin, la célèbre vedette de cinéma portrait récemment cette très belle robe en satin blanc de soie artificielle.

Gown of white artificial satin worn by Mlle Mireille Ballin.

Jane.

Photo Georges Saad.