"Costume Parisien" Fashion Plates from Journal des Dames et Des Modes and Costume Parisien (The Journal of Ladies and Fashion)

Textiles

1804 and 1806

Paris, France

These French fashion plates illustrate the European taste for imported luxuries, particularly from Southeast Asia. In addition to wearing a Kashmir-style shawl, the woman depicted in the plate on the right wears a dress trimmed with so-called “Rubans Turcs” or Turkish ribbons.

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Title: "Costume Parisien" Fashion Plates from Journal des Dames et Des Modes and Costume Parisien (The Journal of Ladies and Fashion)
Place: Paris (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Printed 1804
Medium: .1 Etching and engraving in black ink with watercolor on cream laid paper .2 Etching and engraving in black ink with watercolor and touches of metallic watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions: .1 172 × 93 mm (image); 182 × 111 mm (plate); 189 × 117 mm (sheet) .2 173 × 96 mm (image); 181 × 112 mm (plate); 210 × 120 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Textile Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1997.635.1-2
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Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Trailing the Kashmir Shawl…, Aug. 27–Dec. 1, 1997, brochure.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Fabricating Fashion, Aug. 20, 2022–Jan. 2, 2023, no. cat.

Cora Ginsburg, New York, by Oct. 13, 1997 [incoming receipt RX21759, Oct. 13, 1997; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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