Merveilleuse: Cornette de Lévantine, Domino Garni de Dentelle
Hand-colored engraving with design for the costume of a Merveilleuse, part of the book "Incroyables et Merveilleuses," with 33 costume plates designed by Horace Vernet and engraved by Georges Jacques Gatine, published ca. 1815 in Paris. The costume in this plate consists of an ankle-length, long-sleeved, blue dress and matching blue hat, white leggings, gloves, and shoes. The body of the dress is cut with an empire waist; the sleeves are puffy, tied around the wrists with blue bows and forming bell shapes around the hands, bordered with white ruffles. The bottom of the skirt is bordered with scallop-edged, white lace, decorated with floral motifs, and revealing a white underskirt, bordered by two horizontal strips of shuttle shapes. The collar of the dress is made up of several layers of scallop-edged, white lace, decorated with floral motifs, matching the lower border of the dress. The hat covers tightly the head, and is tied under the chin, also bordered with white ruffles, and decorated at the crown of the head with a large, light blue bow. One hand holds a blue mask close to the face, the other a white lace fichu.
Artwork Details
- Title: Merveilleuse: Cornette de Lévantine, Domino Garni de Dentelle
- Designer: Horace Vernet (French, Paris 1789–1863 Paris)
- Engraver: Georges Jacques Gatine (French, Caen, ca. 1773–after 1841)
- Date: 1814
- Medium: Hand colored engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 10 7/16 in. (41 × 26.5 cm)
Plate: 14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (36.9 × 23.6 cm)
Album: 16 3/4 × 11 5/8 × 11/16 in. (42.5 × 29.5 × 1.7 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
- Object Number: 24.18(15)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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