Costumes Parisiens 116: Mantelet de taffetas « à la vieille » garni d’une chenille verte; Manchon brodé de perles.
Illustration with a design for a taffeta cape and embroidered muff, part of the 51st issue of the "Journal des dames et des modes", published in Paris on October 20, 1913. The illustration features a woman wearing a black cape with ruffled border and pink lining, and with a ruffled neck inspired on Elizabethan ruffs, over a long, narrow, gray skirt, a black and gray hat with green ribbon and pink lining, and pink high heels. She holds a black muff on her hand with ruffled border and embroidered with a pink, green and yellow floral motif and with two pink hanging tassels. She stands inside a room with a red rack with a standing bird, in front of a window that reveals white clouds and yellow trees.
Artwork Details
- Title: Costumes Parisiens 116: Mantelet de taffetas « à la vieille » garni d’une chenille verte; Manchon brodé de perles.
- Artist: Designed by George Barbier (French, Nantes 1882–1932 Paris)
- Publisher: Published by Vaugirard , Paris
- Date: 1913
- Medium: plates: hand colored engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 5 9/16 in. (22.3 × 14.2 cm)
Album: 9 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (23.5 × 14 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Millia Davenport, 1957
- Object Number: 57.546.15(3)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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