Jean Paul Marat was a physician, naturalist and author of scientific and political writings. During the French Revolution, he wrote the Ami du Peuple,
a newspaper that followed the practices of the counter-revolution with sharp polemics.
Category: 1790
The mysterious conversations. Incroyable with bicorne hat.
Incroyable with bicorne hat and Merveilleuses.
Costumes of a legislator. Representatives of the Directorate.
Costumes of a legislator. The French people’s representatives of the Directorate. Costumes of a legislator, designed by Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, for: Projet de costume civique – Habit de législateur. Le représentant… Read More
Joséphine de Beauharnais. Pastel By Pierre Prud’hon
Painting of the young Joséphine de Beauharnais (about 1790) before she became the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Neoclassicism. Louis XVI, French fashion c. 1790-1792
Louis XVI fashion 1790 – 1792. Histoire du costume par Henry Harald Hansen. Neoclassicism.
German fashion in the 18th century.
German fashion in the 18th century. Romanticism. Top row left to right: women’s fashion in 1793. Chur Saxon field postmaster. Princely Hessian postilion. Right: Costumes in 1788. Bottom row left to… Read More
French Republic costumes 18th century
French Republic costumes 18th century.
French Guards swords and handles. 18th century.
French Guards swords and handles. XVIII Century. French school. Period of the Revolution. Museum in Paris. Guards swords and handles. These five motifs, whether special features by ornaments and symbols that… Read More
Marguerite Victoire Babois, French writer 1760-1839
Marguerite Victoire Babois was a French writer, author of elegies and other poems which have placed her name at the forefront of French elegiac poets.
Fruit seller in traditional Indian costume, 18th century.
Fruit seller in traditional Indian costume, 18th century.