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Woman's Dress (Robe à la française)circa 1770

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Full-length eighteenth-century woman's dress in cream fabric with an allover coral, blue, and green botanical print, fitted bodice, wide dome-shaped skirt, and tiered bell-shaped cuffs
Detail of a historic dress in cream cotton or silk, printed with an allover floral pattern of pink, red, and purple blooms with green trailing vines, showing pleated fabric and a gathered waist with twisted cord trim.
Close-up of embroidered textile garment in cream linen, with floral needlework in pink, green, and purple; pleated front edges trimmed with looped braid and spherical fabric-covered buttons with cross-stitch pattern.
Close-up of an 18th-century stays or bodice in cream silk with a printed floral pattern of red, purple, and green flowers, featuring vertical boned channels, gold gimp trim along the front edges, and small round fabric-covered buttons down the center front.
Printed or woven textile with repeating diagonal lattice pattern of floral bouquets in coral red, deep purple-brown, and green on a cream ground, with small scattered blossoms and trailing vines.
Printed or painted textile fragment on cream ground, featuring a central bouquet of stylized flowers with a large purple daisy-like bloom, red multi-petaled flowers, and green leaves, stems gathered with a ribbon bow at the base, with scattered floral sprigs along the edges.
Title
Woman's Dress (Robe à la française)
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1770
Medium
Cotton and linen plain weave, block-printed and dye-painted, with silk passementerie
Dimensions
Center back length: 61 in. (154.94 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.718
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Örmen, Catherine. L'Art de la Mode. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2015.