Chasuble

ca. 1875

Not on view

This tabard-like priest's garment upheld a tradition of liturgical clothing worn throughout western Europe for centuries, but here brought disconcertingly into the late nineteenth century due to the garish colors achieved with its synthetic dyes and the strongly-contoured patterns of industrialized machine-weaving.

Artwork Details

Overview

Provenance

Title: Chasuble
Date: ca. 1875
Culture: probably Italian
Medium: Silk, metallic
Classifications: Textiles-Woven, Textiles-Ecclesiastical
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Frank L. Babbott Fund, Frank Sherman Benson Fund, Carll H. de Silver Fund, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Caroline A. L. Pratt Fund, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, and the Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1948
Object Number: 2009.300.6585
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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