Woman's Stomacher1700-1750

Not on view

Fully opened folding fan with ivory or bone pierced sticks in scrollwork patterns and a cream paper leaf decorated with dense gold-printed motifs surrounding a small central vignette of costumed figures

Folding fan with pierced ivory sticks featuring delicate scrollwork cutwork, and leaf vanes painted with multiple pastoral scenes showing figures in 18th-century dress amid green landscapes, ruins, and rocky outcroppings, with gilded borders throughout.

Two triangular gold metallic lace pieces displayed flat; the left features an open bobbin-lace grid with tassel and medallion motifs and scalloped edging; the right shows dense needle-lace with scrolling floral and foliate appliqué on a sheer ground.

Title: Woman's Stomacher
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1700-1750
Medium: Silk satin with metallic-thread lace, silk and metallic-thread plain-weave appliqués, metallic-thread passementerie, and tassels
Dimensions: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (39.37 × 26.67 cm)
Credit Line: Mrs. Alice F. Schott Bequest
Accession Number: M.67.8.99
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
Maeder, Edward. 600 Years of Embroidery from the Permanent Collection: 1380-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
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.
Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.

Woman's Stomacher1700-1750

Not on view

Title: Woman's Stomacher
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1700-1750
Medium: Silk satin with metallic-thread lace, silk and metallic-thread plain-weave appliqués, metallic-thread passementerie, and tassels
Dimensions: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (39.37 × 26.67 cm)
Credit Line: Mrs. Alice F. Schott Bequest
Accession Number: M.67.8.99
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
Maeder, Edward. 600 Years of Embroidery from the Permanent Collection: 1380-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
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.
Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.