Fabulous French Fashion

Inside the Vault: Fabulous French Fashion

E.D. Rue de la Paix 17, c. 1880 Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette, c.1914

E.D. Rue de la Paix 17

c. 1880

Detail of Louis XIV of France by Hyacinthe Rigaud, c.1701, Louvre Museum.

Portrait of Madame de Conti as Venus by Noel Nicolas Coypel, c. 1731.

The Ringling Museum.

Engravings from Galerie des Modes, 1778-1787. Reproduced in print by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bonnet a la Victoire….or Pouf!

Comment Discerner les Styles du VIIIe au XIXe Siècle

by Leon Roger-Milés, c.1899.

Self-portraitby Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun,

c. 1781. Kimball Art Museum.

Marie-Antoinette in Her Court Robeby Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, c. 1779.

Réunion des Musées Nationaux.

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,

after a copy by Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, c.1788.The Ringling Museum.

Duchess de Polignac by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.c. 1783. The Waddesdon Manor.

The Glove Department at Au Bon Marché, from L’Illustration, August 10, 1889. Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Costumes Parisiens, c.1835

Costumes Parisiens

c.1835

Parisian summer promenade dresses. Plate from the book Costumes

Parisienswritten in 1835.

Costumes Parisiens

c. 1835

Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, &

Fashion

by Rudolph Ackermannc.1830

Ackermann’s Repository of Arts,

Literature, & Fashion

by Rudolph Ackermannc.1830

Comment Discerner les Styles du VIIIe au XIXe Siècle by Leon Roger-Milés

c.1899.

Comment Discerner les

Styles du VIIIe au XIXe Siècle

by Leon Roger-Milésc.1899.

Detail of L’Histoire du Costume Feminin, c. 1922

Un Ministre des Modes sous Louis XVI, Mademoiselle Bertin: Marchande de Modes de la Reine, 1747-1813

by Pierre de Nouvion c.1911

Un Ministre des Modes sous Louis XVI, c.1911

Modes et Costumes Historiques by Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet, c. 1870

The Ringling Art Library

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