#18th century dressing gown

[artschoolglasses]

White Cotton Round Gown, British, 1797-1805

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[fripperiesandfobs]

Gown ca. 1765

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[fashion-from-the-past]

[jewellery-box]

Robe à la française, 1750s.

Woven pink silk incorporating silver metal thread and silver metal strip.

Fashion Museum Bath Twitter

[designedandplated]

Woman's Evening Gown, October 1797.

[justgrrrliestuff]

how about we bring this back

[portrait-paintings]

Eva Gonzalès

Artist: Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

Date: 1870

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883), Manet’s only formal pupil, was a successful artist and a regular exhibitor at the Salon. This portrait was probably started in the summer of 1869 and involved numerous sittings. It was finally finished in March 1870 and shown at the Salon the same year.

Manet had painted other artists (both men and women), but this portrait is unusual in that it shows Gonzalès painting at her easel. The work on the easel, already finished and framed, is a copy after an etching by the flower painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699). A half-rolled print carrying Manet’s signature lies on the floor, a reminder of his role as her teacher. Her pose, along with the white dress and the fluidity of the brushstrokes with which it is painted, recall eighteenth-century self portraits by women. In these they show themselves at their easels, dressed in beautiful, often white gowns, which attest to their success. Here, her flowing white dress fills the composition, its brightness heightened by the dark background so that it becomes a source of illumination in its own right.

[empirearchives]

18th century dresses at Malmaison in France. Current exhibition from the Château de Bois-Préau: 1769, Corsica at the Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte

For several years, the National Museum of the House of Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Napoleon's birthplace where his family lived since the end of the 15th century, has been exploring with talent the history of Corsican society, the architecture of patrician houses, their furnishings and the art of living in Corsica in the 18th century.

For the first time, the synthesis of this work will be presented at the National Museum of châteaux des Malmaison and Bois-Préau on the ground floor of the newly restored Château de Bois-Préau.

[blondebedroom]

The Debutante Waltz Gown (code PAMMY to save)

[wine-dark-soup]

in retrospect alphinaud and alisaie's ARR outfits are even more ridiculous looking than i remembered when you know no one in sharlayan dresses like that

[artschoolglasses]

White Muslin Round Gown, Italian, 1795

From the Kyoto Costume Institute

[fripperiesandfobs]

Gown ca. 1790-1810

From Cora Ginsburg

[fashion-from-the-past]

1780s

[jewellery-box]

SILK BROCADE ROBE A L'ANGLAISE, 1770-1790s

Augusta Auctions

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Marie Antoinette / Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette

Coeli's comment: "You might want to yoink something from this embarrassment of riches: https://www.frockflicks.com/tbt-marie-antoinette-1938/." That link has an excellent overview of costumes for the whole movie. (Coeli later singled out this dress, so this is the one I'm going with.)

Gowns by Adrian!

[designedandplated]

Women's Green Round Gown, January 1793.