France 18th century. Costumes of the middle classes. Bourgeois women and their children. Rococo period.
Clothing of the middle classes in France during the rococo period.
Category: Europe
Fashion and Costume History of Europe.
Design of a silk pattern in franco-oriental style. 17th c.
Design of a silk pattern in franco-oriental style based on Persian ornamentation. France at the beginning of the 17th century.
Neapolitans eating macaroni. Italian scenery, manners and customs 1809.
The plate represents a country maccaronara; for so are called those public houses where nothing but macaroni is sold; and no village is without them. The Neapolitan macaroni is easily known by not being twisted like that of Genoa, but straight, or bent only at one end.
Transport wagons, coaches and carriages in 16th and 17th century.
Transport wagons, coaches and carriages in 16th and 17th century Europe. Coaches in France. Continental carriages in the 13th and 14th century.
Garde du Corps. Hussars and Ulans. Uniforms of the 18th century.
France first half of the 18th century uniforms. Rattky and Bercheny-Husars. Garde du Corps. Foreign regiments. Hussars and Ulans. Uniforms of French soldiers of the 18th century.
The Tuscan. A short account of a Violin by Stradivari.
The “Tuscan.” A short account of a Violin by Stradivari. Made for Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Dated 1690. THIS remarkable instrument, one of the finest examples of Stradivari’s work, is probably unique in the preservation, in every detail, of the original beauty of its form and workmanship.
France 18th century. Military uniforms. Cavalry music.
France 18th century. Military uniforms. Cavalry music. Companies of the Kings Guard. The royal livery. The Musketeers of the Royal Guard.
Marie-Antoinette as Dauphine and as Queen of France.
Marie-Antoinette as an example of elegance and extravagance as Dauphine and as Queen of France.
Extravagance of clothes and hairstyles during the rococo period.
France 18th century.
Female costumes of the rococo. Fashions from the first period of the government of Louis XVI. Extravagance of clothes and hairstyles.
Hairstyles, hats and caps. Reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
France 18th century. Fashions from the second half of the government of Louis XVI. Hairstyles. Hats and caps. The Déshabillés.
HAIRSTYLES. – HATS AND CAPS. THE DESHABILLÉS.
