Fan decoration of the reign of Louis XIV., and during the first part of the reign of Louis XV. was greatly improved by the celebrated Vernis Martin (Martin’s Varnish).
Four French Vernis Martin Fans and One of Ivory Brisé.
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.
Elizabeth Beauclerk, Lady Herbert second daughter of Lady Diana Spencer
Elizabeth Beauclerk was the third child and second daughter of Lady Diana and Topham Beauclerk, she married in 1787 her cousin George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.
Werther and Charlotte. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
The suffering of the young Werther is regarded as the key novel of the Sturm and Drang (literally “storm and drive”). It developed into “the first bestseller of German literature”.
Directoire costume of the Executive Board.
Members of the Executive Directory are accorded full military honours.
Robe de Cour au grand Orient; Coeffure à la mode Asiatique.
A Madame la Comtesse d’Oyeras. Un tour de robe en blonde tournante
Native Californian clothing at the end of the 18th century.
The engravings depicting Californian native people, taken from the Encyclopedia of Travels by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, a five-volume work published in Paris in 1795-1796.
The art of lingerie during the rococo period in Paris c. 1770.
The Vignette represents a Lingerie Shop in Paris, around 1770. Pattern of the most common underwear. Alphabetical and numerical embroidery patterns.
Directoire Members of The Council of the Five Hundred.
This Council initiates the laws; it is within this Council that the resolutions which are presented to the Council of Elders are formed.
Directoire Member who constitute the Council of Elders.
Costume of the Members who constitute the Council of Elders.
Rococo. Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, 1778.
Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, trimmed in Pouf, the trim in the same fabric.