#George Brun

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bows in art

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The Scandalous Chemise of Marie Antoinette

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1783-) • Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress • 1783

Just as John Singer Sargent did some 100 years later, Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun often befriended her portrait subjects, engaging their trust so as to create authentic portraits that captured not just the likeness but the spirit of the sitter. Such was the case with Vigée Le Brun's Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress.

Vigée Le Brun was the official court painter. She painted Marie Antoinette approximately 30 times. For the "chemise dress" painting, it's unclear whose idea it was that the queen depart from traditional, more formal dress and wear a casual, unstructured dress instead. Perhaps Vigée Le Brun persuaded her to wear the white chemise or they arrived at the decision together.

The dress itself is made from cotton muslin instead of the French silk that royalty usually had their garments made from. It is tied comfortably at the waist with a yellow sash. The only ornamentation are the puffed sleeves and the ruffled neckline. Marie wears very little makeup and no jewelry.

Despite its simple elegance, the painting was met with much scorn and disapproval when it was shown at Vigée Le Brun's first Académie Salon. Though the garment was designed to be a dress, its lack of structure resembled an undergarment and was thus considred scandalous. Further, it was considered unpatriotic that the queen of France wore imported cotton rather than French Lyonnaise silk. Vigée Le Brun was forced to remove the portrait from the Salon and it was replaced with this one:

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842). Marie Antoinette with a Rose • 1783

By the end of the 18th century, the chemise dress was hugely popular and worn for portraits by many prominent women in and outside of France. Marie Antoinette's fashion faux pas led to a fashion craze which is said by some historians to have been a catalyst for the slave trade, as the demand for cotton grew exponentially.

Right: Jacques Louis David (French, 1748-1825) • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife • 1788.

Left: George Romney (British/English, 1734-1802) • Mrs. Billington as Saint Cecilia • 1787-88

The chemise dress was to evolve to an empire waist and a narrower skirt, creating the style we now call The Regency fashion era.

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Historical Portraits of Children // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

Four Children Making Music – attributed to the master of the Countess of Warwick, 1565 // Three Children with a Dog or Two Sisters and a Brother of the Artist – Sofonisba Anguissola, 1570-1590 // The Children of Philip III of Spain (Ferdinand, Alfonso, and Margarita) – Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1612 // Three Children with a Goat-Cart – Frans Hals, 1620 // The Balbi Children – Anthony van Dyck, 1625-1627 // The Three Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1635-1636 // Five Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1637 // Portrait of the Children of Habert de Montmor – Philippe de Champaigne, 1649 // Group Portrait of Charlotte Eleonora zu Dohna, Amalia Louisa zu Dohna, and Friedrich Christoph zu Dohna-Carwinden – Pieter Nason, 1667 // The Graham Children – William Hogarth, 1742 // Portrait of Sir Edward Walpole’s Children – Stephen Slaughter, 1747 // The Bateson Children – Strickland Lowry, 1762 // The Gower Family: The Five Youngest Children of the 2nd Earl Gower – George Romney, 1776-1777 // Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France, and Her Children – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787 // The Marsham Children – Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 // The Oddie Children – William Beechey, 1789 // Three Siblings – Johann Nepomuk Mayer, 1846 // Happy Children – Paul Barthel, 1898 // My Children – Joaquín Sorolla, 1904 // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

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I keep listening to this over and over while I write, and I don't know. I've just been obsessed with this part of the song since I was a kid and I still haven't gotten enough of it it seems.

[lilacs-and-lavenders]

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot

Drink up me hearties, yo ho

We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot

Drink up me hearties, yo ho

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

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Ngl, George Bruns really popped off with this one. Name better dragon fighting music. You can't.

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Perdita Agere moodboard <3

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history playlist moodboard – cottagecore songs to play at a tea party in an enchanted garden

A Mother and Child Entering a Cottage – Helen Allingham // Still Life: Tea and Pastries – Albert Anker // Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun // The Spreading Tree – George Clausen // In the Garden – Włodzimierz Błocki // A Buckinghamshire House at Penstreet – Helen Allingham // Girl in Traditional Russian Costume with Floral Wreath – Firs Zhuravlev // Garden Path – Annie L. Pressland // Still Life of Strawberries and Cream – attributed to John F. Francis

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L'Art et la mode Octobre-Novembre 1956

Jean Dessès Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1956-57. Patricia Prunonosa wears a brown wool suit by Rodier.

Jean Dessès Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1956-57. Patricia Prunonosa porte un tailleur en lainage brun de Rodier.

Photo Georges Saad

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Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...The Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1981988) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #returnofthelivingdead #returnofthelivingdeadpart2 #nightofthelivingdead #georgeromero #ripgeorgeromero #Zombies #thommatthews #jameskaren #SuzanneSnyder #michaelkenworthy #danaashbrook #thorvanlingen #MitchPileggi #philipbruns #ForrestJAckerman #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest