#desoria

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Constance Pipelet

Artist: Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria (French, 1758–1832)

Date: 1797

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Painted in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Désoria’s Portrait of Constance Pipelet typifies the Neoclassical style of portraiture practiced by Jacques-Louis David and his circle. The figure, placed parallel to the picture plane and silhouetted against the bright blue of the sky, evokes antique relief sculpture. Her white cotton dress was the fashionable attire of middle- and upper-class women in the 1790s, its antique associations reflecting Neoclassical ideals and its simplicity echoing the egalitarian spirit of the new French Republic. Constance Pipelet, later Constance de Salm-Dyck, was a noted poet, librettist, and feminist with a salon that attracted the literary and artistic notables of Paris.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil Painting, 1797, French.

By Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria.

Portraying Constance Pipelet in a white empire-waist dress.

The Art Institute of Chicago.

[oldsardens]

Jean Baptiste Francois Desoria - Portrait of Constance Pipelet

[antonio-m]

“Male Nude”, c.1786 by Jean-Baptiste Francois Desoria (1758-1832). French painter. oil on canvas

[eirene]

Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797

Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria

[gogmstuff]

More (seventeen) 90s (from top to bottom) -

Elégante vue de dos by Jean Pillement (Artcurial - 22Mar23 auction Lot 156). From invaluable.com; fixed spots w Pshop 2401X3578.

Lady by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (location ?). From garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/amp/topics/18th+century+oil+portraits+of+women+at+bust+length?page=2 404X480.

Constance Pipelet by Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria (Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, USA). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 2048X2705.

Zofia Wittowa Potocka (1760–1822) als Vestalin by Johann Baptist Lampi (Pinacoteca, Palazzo del Buonconsiglio - Trento, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy). From tumblr.com/sims4rococo76; too many flaws to fix 2048X2596. There too many flaws to attempt making repairs.

[whennnow]

Sewing a Regency Gown Part 5 - Photos and Inspiration

October 8, 2020

[Image ID: a photo of Alex wearing a white drawstring-front Regency gown with red accessories in the woods.]

Part 1 - Drafting the Bodice

Part 2 - Sewing the Bodice

Part 3 - The Skirt

Part 4 - The Sleeves

I've been thinking about, researching, planning, and preparing for this project for about six years. I was in high school then, and now I've graduated from college. I'm incredibly happy about how it turned out, so I wanted to share some photos! (This post is, for that reason, very photo heavy.)

It's not perfect, of course - bodice lining peaks out of the neckline a bit and there's still something wonky with the sleeves - but it's done. I had an art professor who liked to remind us that "done is better than perfect." I'd rather have a complete imperfect project than a perfect ufo.

Now that my white neo-classical Regency dress is done I wanted to share some of my inspiration! I've got a lot of white dresses saved on this Pinterest board, but I wanted to highlight a few.

This 1798 fashion plate from Costume Parisien. While the waistline is hidden by her shawl, it seems to be gathered at the waist and neckline. A line across the bust might imply the lining layer of the dress or the top edge of her stays.

This 1804 drawing by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres of Henrietta Harvey and her half-sister Elizabeth Norton. Both women are wearing gowns that seem to have drawstrings in the waist- and necklines. I think I can see the ties of the waistline drawstring on the woman on the left.

Desoria's 1797 portrait of Constance Pipelet shows a classic late-1790s gown, with a high waistline and rounded bust. If you zoom in on the image, you can tell that the waistline is gathered into a tape or piece of fabric, but isn't a drawstring.

You can't see the front of the gown in this undated (but clearly early 1800s) portrait, but I loved how the skirt is ungathered along the sides and densely gathered or pleated into the bottom of the center back bodice panel. I opted to do something similar on my dress.

This extant gown from the National Museum of Norway's digital collection also features a skirt that is ungathered at the sides but densely gathered/pleated under the center back panel. The front bodice of the dress is gathered and seems to have a drawstring at the neckline, but the skirt is only gathered a few inches at the center front. If you zoom in on the bodice you can see the inner lining of the bodice.

And with that, one of my long-term dream projects is done! I know I keep saying this, but I am so excited with how it turned out! I'm already dreaming of the open robes, over bodices, spencers, and matching reticules I can make now...

Stay warm. Stay safe. Stay healthy.

[Image ID: a 3/4 view of Alex from the hips up wearing a white Regency dress with red accessories.]

[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of Constance Pipelet, Jean-Baptiste-Francois Desoria, 1797

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797

By Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria French, 1758–1832

[history-of-fashion]

1797 Jean-Baptiste François Desoria - Portrait of Constance Pipelet

(Art Institute of Chicago)

[enchantemoimerlin]

Jean-Baptiste Desoria (1758-1832) 

Male Nude, 1786

[baronobexi-blog]

Forlorn Celestial Love

{The moon was so pretty to me during my earliest years of imprisonment and she had given so much goodness to me. She had been my companion. She had been my guardian. She had been my love. But now…I hate the moon. I hate how she mocks me with her freedom. I hate how she looks beneath me with a pitying face. I hate how she reminds me of the mistakes that lead me to here. I wish she still lent me hope instead of lending me despair.} — Lexandra Belosia, 12th scribe of The Wandering Sisters of Nosia. 7th Rain of Desoria

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Blog #4 part that got cut off

he experienced a dream about Francis. After the Age of Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution came into full motion, people began to move away from art being only about religion to art being about literally anything else. From portraits, scenes from history, to pieces of fruit. Artists sought to find a way to express the daily life of the average person on the average day. That’s not to say that art was never about religious themes but rather art became more expressive about other topics in life. One of the pictures that I liked from the Art Institute was the Portrait of Constance Piptelet which was made in the year seventeen ninety seven. According to the journal in the JAMA Network, Jean-Baptiste François Desoria (1758-1832) was born in Paris and was primarily a history painter in the Neoclassical style. He painted Constance Pipelet who was a writer and librettist; she was known primarily for her role in the opera Sapho and her book Epître aux femmes (Epistle to the Women).. I imagine Desoria wanted to explore a new way to depict women in a new era. From earlier portraits, it was only noble women and they appeared to be very serious and not very expressive. Desoria challenges this by making her very natural, calming, and beautiful. As the JAMA network also notes, like her French predecessor of some four centuries earlier, Christine de Pizan, Constance Pipelet celebrated in writing the intellectual achievements of women.

[coffeefairs]

Zimmer 124, Internat,  per terra.

Con vino e cafe, lei con la chittarra in mano, io incantata.  

Stark und heiss, Tasse für Tasse. Handgekauft, mitgebracht, frisch aufgebrüht, zu schnell weg. Müde, aufgeregt, mit Schultratsch, hüpfendem, rasendem Herz, aufgeregter Plapperei, verstekter Anarchie, illegalen Tricks, sichwie15fühlen, aufgedreht, kreativ, Weinstimmung und Lachanfälle auf dem Boden. 

com'è dolce il ricordo di Saltans Desoria; perchè basta anche un niente per essere felici

Ora, in questo momento!

[antonio-m]

‘Male Nude’ 1786 by Jean-Baptiste François Desoria (1758 – 1832). French painter. oil on canvas

[antonio-m]

Jean Baptiste Francois Desoria, Male Nude. 1786.