Eighteenth-Century French Fashions in Full ColorPaperback
Eighteenth-Century French Fashions in Full ColorPaperback The Galerie des Modes has been called the "most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of the eighteenth century." Published over…
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Eighteenth-Century French Fashions in Full ColorPaperback
The Galerie des Modes has been called the "most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of the eighteenth century." Published over a 10-year period, from 1778 to 1787, its plates were elegantly drawn, accurately engraved, and exquisitely hand colored by the most celebrated fashion artists of the era. Here are 64 of the finest plates from the Levy edition, reproduced faithfully from the originals. This monument to costume illustration was reproduced by Emile Levy in Paris between 1911 and 1914.
Selected by costume historian Stella Blum, former Curator of Costumes at the Costume Institute of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, they offer a splendid representation of French fashion in the late eighteenth century.The great social, economic, and political changes of the turbulent period that led to the Revolution in 1789 were reflected in its fashions: the
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