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Nicolas Bonnart
Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'La sage femme'1678-1693

Not on view
Hand-colored engraving, full-length portrait of a woman in a black veil, lace cuffs, and cobalt blue patterned skirt, holding a red and gold cloth, with French text below
Close-up detail of a textured surface with silver-gray curved and scroll-like forms against a deep cobalt blue granular ground, with visible surface irregularities and iridescent glitter-like particles.
Close-up detail of a textile or manuscript surface with interlacing foliate scrollwork in gold and cream, outlined in dark ink, with a fragment of deep blue visible at lower right.

Nicolas Bonnart, Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'La sage femme', 1678-1693, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. H. Tony Oppenheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Oppenheimer, Hal Oppenheimer, Alice and Nahum Lainer, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Oppenheimer, Ricki and Marvin Ring, Mr. and Mrs. David Sydorick, the Costume Council Fund, and member of the Costume Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Publisher
Nicolas Bonnart
France, 1637-1717
Title
Recueil des modes de la cour de France, 'La sage femme'
Place Made
France, Paris
Date Made
1678-1693
Medium
Hand-colored engraving on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (36.51 x 23.81 cm); Composition: 9 7/8 x 7 in. (25.08 x 17.78 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. H. Tony Oppenheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Oppenheimer, Hal Oppenheimer, Alice and Nahum Lainer, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Oppenheimer, Ricki and Marvin Ring, Mr. and Mrs. David Sydorick, the Costume Council Fund, and member of the Costume Council
Accession Number
M.2002.57.15
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Provenance

Patrick and Elisabeth Sourget, Chartres, France;

Ursus Rare Books, Ltd., New York, NY;

2002 - Present Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States, California, Los Angeles

Selected Bibliography
  • Norberg, Kathryn, and Sandra Rosenbaum, eds. Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2014.
  • Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: a Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

  • Brooks, Mary M., Cristina Balloffet Carr, and Patricia Wilson Nguyen. "'A Bearinge Clothe for the Christeninge' - Part I: Contexts, Materiality and Values." Textile History 54, no.2 (2023): 233-71.