Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787 by Blum, Stella
Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787 by Blum, Stella

Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787

The Galerie des Modes has been called the most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of...
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Author: Stella Blum
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Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787 by Blum, Stella

Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787

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Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787 by Blum, Stella

Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color: 64 Engravings from the Galerie Des Modes, 1778-1787

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Author: Stella Blum
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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. This monument to costume illustration was reproduced by Emile Lévy in Paris between 1911 and 1914. Here are 64 of the finest plates from the Lévy edition, reproduced faithfully from the originals. 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 influence on traditional women's costume of the dress of servants and country women; the exotic costumes of actresses; and the simpler, more practical English styles. Men's fashions were also affected by the English as well as by the exaggerated Italianate fashions sported by foppish macaronis. Children's fashions include the one-piece mantelot, interesting as a forerunner of the attire of the sans-culottes. Special fashion terms, many of which have been obscured by time, are defined in a Glossary.

Author: Stella Blum
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 09/21/2016
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 12.17h x 9.20w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780486243313

About the Author
Stella Blum (1916-85) was Curator of Costumes at the Costume Institute of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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