Lucienne Bréval, an iconic soprano of French opera, was dazzling career in the 1890s with unforgettable performances
Lucienne Bréval: A French opera star (1869-1935)
Tag: Belle Epoque Fashion
Costume silhouettes at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In 1920 the costume consisting of a straight, short skirt, trim box coat or sweater and blouse
Fashion silhouettes of the 19th century.
Restoration (1814-1830), Romantic period (1830-1848), Second Empire (1852-1870).
Climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Gay Nineties. Late victorian fashion of the 1890s. In about fifteen minutes one can thus reach the summit of Cheops, which is now a platform about thirty feet square.
The Cliffs at Nahant, North Shore, Massachusetts, 1892.
This place was famous in the olden time as one of the favorite haunts of the great sea-serpent.
Scene at Fifth Avenue, New York by William Thomas Smedley.
Belle Époque. Fifth Avenue looking north towards the southern entrance to Central Park by W. T. Smedley, 1899.
Gay Nineties. Dude wardrobe with bowler and lady in afternoon costume.
What a dandy was to the Regency, and an exquisite to the Elizabethans, a dude was to the late 19th century.
England 1880’s men’s and milady’s fashion. Late Victorian costumes.
A lady in so called princess dress and waterfall hairstyle. The bearded gentleman is dressed in formal afternoon attire, wearing a cut-away coat, horseshoe stickpin, and boutonniere.
Portrait of MME or a Lady 4 from the painting by Giovanni Boldini.
Belle Époque. Portrait of a Lady by Giovanni Boldini at l’Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889.
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.