The elegant Parisian society of 1792 in the gardens of the Royal Palace: elegant crowd, gathered under the trees, discussing and courting.
The Public Walk at the Palais-Royal in 1792
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Port Bathy and Capital of Ithaca. The Neritos of Homer.
This is the port which is exhibited in the present view, and the lofty mountain beyond its entrance is the Neritos of Homer. Views in Greece by Edward Dodwell. London, 1821.
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess of Bavaria (also called Sisi).
Empress Elisabeth of Austria wearing a courtly gala dress designed by Charles Frederick Worth, 1865, with Diamond Stars by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1865.
Madame X. Scandal of a portrait. Paris of the Belle Époque in 1884.
The portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau.
Madame X. or the exciting life in the Paris of the Belle Époque.
Persian woman costume. England Victorian Romanticism.
English Black Romantic. Idealised, representation of women at the beginning of the Victorian age.
Saboterie. Production of wooden shoes in Basse-Bretagne, 1840.
Production of wooden shoes in the Basse-Bretagne in 1840. View into the interior of a hut where a family lives together.
Another old custom gone. Jean Patou. Jeanne Hallée. Molyneux.
Another old custom gone. Art-Goût-Beauté. October 1923. Fashion by Jean Patou, Jeanne Hallée, Molyneux.
Wall Papers, designed by Walter Crane, 1918.
Fig and Peacock. Golden Age. Wood Notes.
Italian embroidered silk hangings. The treasury of ornamental art. 16th c.
THIS engraving shows the upper and lower portions of a vertical panel, supposed to have originally formed a pilaster or border to a piece of tapestry.
Princesse dress. Promenade gown by Maison de couture Félix.
When Mme. Sarah Bernhardt first came to America, all her scenic costumes were designed by Maison de couture Félix.