#fashionable women in paintings

[resplendentoutfit]

The Painted Gown: Four Portraits of Sitters Wearing Beautiful Evening Dresses

Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Durand (French, 1837-1917) • Mademoiselle X • 1873

 Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842–1902) • Reclining Woman • Unknown da

Giacomo Grosso (Italian, 1860-1938) • La femme • 1895

Albert Braïtou-Sala (French, 1885-1972). L’élégance d’un monde en péril • 1927

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

[la-belle-histoire]

Edwardian First Edition Covers of Lucy Maud Montgomery books.

The Story Girl (1911), Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910).

[diemelusine]

Nerissa (1906) by John William Godward. Private collection.

[from-a-spiders-web]

Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress (detail), 1893 Anton Ebert

[hckat]

Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879, Vienna)

Potrait of a young elegant lady, three-quarter length, in a red dress with an embroidered shawl, standing in a landscape

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Carl Wilhelm Bernhardt Mohrhagen (German, 1813-1877) Portret damy z kamea i roza, 1850

[solcattus]

Madame Pasca, 1874

By Léon Bonnat

[aworldofpattern]

Ayo Edebiri at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom gown by Loewe.

Floral guipure lace, hand-painted and embroidered to give the illusion of 3D flowers.

[fyblackwomenart]

Sweet Magnolia by Wencke Uhl

[resplendentoutfit]

Painting to Dress Match-up

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (American, 1851–1912) • A Rose • 1907

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[la-belle-histoire]

Before the Wedding, Firs Zhuravlyov. 1870s.

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen-consort of the United Kingdom (c. 1831) by William Beechey. National Portrait Gallery.

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Anna Maria Lergetporer, by Barbara Krafft, 1811, Napoleonic era

[daguerreotype-era]

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