LA COMTESSE DE PROVENCE. Robe de Cour, Moyen Panier 1778. Galerie des Modes et Costumes Français Dessinés d’Apres Nature 1778-1787.
Comtesse de Provence in Robe de Cour, Moyen Panier 1778.
Category: 18th Century
Costume and Fashion History during the 18th Century. Clothing of the Late Baroque, Rococo, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Rose Bertin Minister of Fashion at the court of Marie Antoinette. The French Revolution fashion period of Incroyables and Merveilleuses. The Georgians and Regency period.
A Lady and a Gallant. France Directoire 1795.
A Lady and a Gallant. France 1795.
Merveilleuse and Incroyable. French fashion of the Directoire.
Princess Lamballe. Tragedy of the French Revolution.
Historic tragedies have their lessons of instruction to after-generations; they tell their sad tales of sorrow and anguish, which make ears tingle and hearts weep in sympathy. They form graphic… Read More
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.
THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon. Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, known as “chevalier d’Éon” (1728- 1810) was a diplomat, spy, officer and man of letters from France. He remained famous for his pronounced… Read More
Shoes of the 17th and 18th century. Reign of George II.
Example of combined shoes and clogs. Shoe fashion of the baroque and rococo period.
Fashion Reign James II, William I. England 17th century
REIGNS OF JAMES II – WILLIAM I AND MARY 1685-1700
Terra di Lavoro. Two woolen carpets. Italy 18th c.
Woolen carpets of Terra di Lavoro, 18th century.
Salon de Musique of Queen Marie Antoinette
Salon de Musique of Queen Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France. Showing the following contemporary Louis XVI. furniture:
Abruzzi. Italian peasant rugs.
Heavy woolen blanket. Abruzzi, Italy ca. 1770